13 Facts About Brookwood Cemetery

Brookwood Cemetery, known as the London Necropolis, is a burial ground in Brookwood, Surrey, England.

Brookwood Cemetery was conceived by the London Necropolis Company in 1849 to house London's deceased, at a time when the capital was finding it difficult to accommodate its increasing population, of living and dead.

In 1854, Brookwood was the largest cemetery in the world but it is no longer.

Brookwood Cemetery originally was accessible by rail from a special station – the London Necropolis railway station – next to Waterloo station in Central London.

For visitors wishing to use the South West Main Line, Brookwood Cemetery station has provided direct access since June 1864.

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Brookwood Cemetery was one of the few cemeteries to permit burials on Sundays, which made it a popular choice with the poor as it allowed people to attend funerals without the need to take a day off work.

Maximillian investments secured the passing of the Brookwood Cemetery Act 1975 which authorised them to sell unused parts of the cemetery and a few areas were sold for development.

The Brookwood Cemetery Society was founded in 1992 to organise events, promote the site's history and support restoration work.

The exhumations and study began in October 2018 and the re-interment at Brookwood Cemetery took place sometime around August 2020 to November 2020.

Brookwood Military Cemetery covers about 37 acres and is the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the United Kingdom.

Brookwood Cemetery has 786 non-Commonwealth war graves, including 28 unidentified French, besides eight German dead from World War I and 46 from World War II.

The Brookwood Cemetery Memorial was erected in 1983 and dismantled in 2015.

Brookwood Cemetery is served by Brookwood railway station, and is located on both sides of Cemetery Pales in Woking.