Redan Road Cemetery

As the civilian town of Aldershot expanded with the arrival of the Army in the 1850s the need for a new town cemetery soon became apparent. Until then the old village churchyard surrounding the parish church of St Michael's had been adequate. The Aldershot Burial Board was formed at a Vestry Meeting on 31 October 1860, and its nine members held its first meeting the following month. They moved quickly to obtain a site for a town cemetery, and before the end of the year the Board had acquired land formerly known as "Bedford’s Field" at the foot of Redan Hill at a cost of £1,700. Two chapels were built either side of the roadway into the cemetery, one for the Church of England and the other…