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Welcome to the Home Page of The Brookwood Cemetery Society

The Brookwood Cemetery Society is a voluntary group dedicated to the preservation, history and appreciation of Brookwood Cemetery.  The cemetery was opened in November 1854, and was the largest in the world. It was originally called the London Necropolis or Woking Cemetery.

News Update

Restoration News

 

Our list of guided walks has been updated through to September 2009.

There are revised opening times for the cemetery: Daily from 7am to 5pm (Winter: October to March); from 7am to 7pm (Summer: April to September); Glades of Remembrance (8am - 5pm).

All our guided walks now start from the entrance to the Glades of Remembrance, adjacent to the Cemetery Office.  There is a separate entrance to the Glades, with its own lay-by, off Cemetery Pales. Parking is available inside the entrance. Refreshments and toilet facilities will usually be available.

There are new arrangements for all private guided walks in the cemetery, for which see this link on the Company's Website.

The Columbarium, Brookwood CemeteryThe Society urgently needs to raise funds for emergency repairs to the Columbarium, which is listed Grade II.

Through your generous support and donations we have raised half of the £7,000 needed for remedial work. We have another year to raise the remainder in order to be awarded the £2,000 retrospective grant from the Surrey Historic Buildings Trust. Further donations welcome - please contact Margaret Hobbs (address below).

Emergency repairs to the Drake mausoleum have been completed - photographs of the finished roof have been posted here

Other Recent News

Contact Us

Our latest newsletter has now been circulated to members.

The latest issue (No. 3) of Necropolis News, our occasional magazine, is now available.

Photography in the cemetery
If you are taking photographs in the cemetery you will need permission to do so. Permit forms are available from the Cemetery Office and on our guided walks.

For further information about the Society, please contact:

Margaret Hobbs
75 Ranelagh Crescent
Ascot
Berks
SL5 8LQ
 

Tel. (01344) 891041

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