Cemeteries · East Midlands
Sheffield General Cemetery
Sheffield General Cemetery is a cemetery in the United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 30 min–1 h
- Nearest railway station
- Sheffield · 2.0 km
- Free entry
- Dog-friendly
About
Sheffield General Cemetery is a named cemetery in the United Kingdom. Coordinates: 53.3692°, -1.4873°. This entry is part of The Great Britain Guide, a free, ad-free, open-data tourist directory.
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From the Wikipedia article
The General Cemetery in the City of Sheffield, England opened in 1836 and closed for burial in 1978. It was the principal cemetery in Victorian Sheffield with over 87,000 burials. Today it is a listed Landscape (Grade II*) on the English Heritage National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. It is also a Local Nature Reserve. It is owned by the City of Sheffield and managed on behalf of the city by a local community group, the Sheffield General Cemetery Trust.
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Background
History
.|291x291px]] The General Cemetery was one of the first commercial landscape cemeteries in Britain. Its opening in 1836 as a Nonconformist cemetery was a response to the rapid growth of Sheffield and the relatively poor state of the town's churchyards. The cemetery, with its Greek Doric and Egyptian style buildings, was designed by Sheffield architect Samuel Worth (1779–1870) on the site of a former quarry. Robert Marnock who also designed Sheffield Botanical Gardens (1836) and Weston Park (1873) acted as a landscape consultant for this initial phase. The first burial was of Mary Ann Fish, a victim of tuberculosis. was consecrated alongside the Nonconformist cemetery in 1846—the wall that…
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- Coordinates
- 53.3692, -1.4873
- District
- Sheffield
- Parish
- Sheffield, unparished area
- Postcode
- S11 8FS
- Parliamentary constituency
- Sheffield Central
- Nearest railway station
- Sheffield — 2 km
Sources
- osm: w4387516 (ODbL)
- wikipedia: Sheffield General Cemetery (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: Sheffield General Cemetery Non-Conformist Chapel.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Sheffield General Cemetery?
- Sheffield General Cemetery is in East Midlands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 53.3692°, -1.4873°. The nearest railway station is Sheffield, around 2 km away.
- Is Sheffield General Cemetery free to visit?
- Yes — admission to Sheffield General Cemetery is free.