Tag:landuse=churchyard

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Churchyard of St Mary's, Wollaton Park, Nottingham.jpg
Description
Area surrounding a church or chapel — Deprecated: consider landuse=religious instead. Edit this description in the wiki page. Edit this description in the data item.
Group: landuse
Used on these elements
should not be used on nodesshould not be used on waysshould not be used on areasshould not be used on relations (except multipolygon relations)
Useful combination
See also
Status: deprecated

Used to map the area surrounding a Christian church or chapel, particularly when this does not contain a graveyard. The churchyard may include a number of ancillary buildings and facilities, such as a church hall, schoolroom and vicarage (manse, priest's house).


This tag is problematic as it duplicates more common ways to map such objects and conflicts with some uses of this word[1].

See also landuse=religious, a more general tag with the same purpose, but not related to a specific religion. Note that this tag is suitable also in cases where grounds include no longer visible (and therefore unmappable) underground traces of a former cemetery.

See amenity=grave_yard for a graveyard associated with a church

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References

  1. Cambridge Dictionary (UK) - "an area of land around a church, where dead bodies are buried ", Merriam-Webster (US): "a yard that belongs to a church and is often used as a burial ground.", The Oxford Dictionary (UK) - "an area of land around a church, often used for burying people" https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2019-December/049875.html and https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2019-December/049882.html