South East

Isle of Wight

Northwood Cemetery, Cowes (1856)

The website of the Friends of Northwood Cemetery includes a history of site development.

Oxford

Morgan, N. and Powell, P. (2015) The Geology of Oxford Gravestones, Chipping Norton: Geologica Press.

Portsmouth

Highland Road Cemetery (1854)

The website of the Friends of Highland Road Cemetery gives a summary of its history.

Reading

Reading Old Cemetery (1843)

A collaboration between the University of Reading and the group Reading Old Cemetery: History, Heritage and Education has created a cemetery website, illustrated with local photographs and postcards.

Southampton

Southampton Old Cemetery (1846) 

The website of the Friends of Southampton Old Cemetery includes information on the site’s early history.

Tunbridge Wells

Trinity Cemetery (1830)

This burial ground was created as a consequence of the Church Building Act. The website of the Friends of Trinity Cemetery summarises early history.

Tunbridge Wells Cemetery at Hawkenbury (1873)

The website of the Friends of the Tunbridge Wells Cemetery at Hawkenbury charts the early difficult start for this burial board cemetery.

Winchester

The website of the Friends of Giles Hill Graveyard sets the site in its local history context, and includes detailed maps.

Woking

Brookwood Cemetery (1854)

Clarke, J.M. (1983) The Brookwood Necropolis Railway, Locomotion Papers 143, Salisbury: Oakwood Press.

Clarke, J. M. (2004) London’s Necropolis: A Guide to Brookwood Cemetery, Stroud: Sutton.

See also John Clarke’s website, which contains further substantial information.

Herman, A. (2010) ‘Death has a touch of class: society and space in Brookwood Cemetery, 1853-1903’, Journal of Historical Geography, 36:3, 405-422.

 

 

British History

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