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Brookwood Cemetery



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Friends of Surrey Cemeteries (Surrey Cemeteries: a survey, 2012):

Privately owned from 1980s by R Guney, Turkish Cypriot businessman. He died intestate in 2006 and in 2011 the High Court awarded ownership to his partner Diane Halliday.

Opened 1854. 440 acres. 4 chapels, office and lodge.

Sections for Catholics, Bakers, Foresters, Oddfellows, 7 Muslim sects, Swedish church, Latvian church, Orthodox church, L&SW Railway, S Railway, Corps of Commissionaires, London parishes and churches, several religious orders.

1855 first land sale. By 1864 only 343 acres sold for £31,000 (to War Office).

1869 Act removed all restrictions on land sale – from this point land sales took prominence.

1906 vacates 2 Lancaster Place, Strand. 1917 first military burials.

1921 IWGC formally opens area.

1925 Ltd Company formed.

1936 first sale of shares to public. A series of public and private owners through to the 1980s when Administrators took over.

SHC 2935/3/ burial registers 1854 - 1976

SHC 2935/2/ grant registers. 1854 – 1890s (with 1870s gap) plus 1928 – 1950s plus Glades.

SHC 2935/4/ ledgers. SHC 6852. more recent deposits mix of items

SHC 4075. SHC 4381. SHC 2935/1/ . SHC 2935/5/ . other

SHC 614.6. Resource sources for the London Necropolis & National mausoleum Company & Brookwood Cemetery. A very good summary of cemetery history and list of sources at the PRO & SHC prepared 2001.

SHC 6852 a wide range of pictures and various records.

SHC Z/436 copies of biographical details of over 2000 persons buried in the cemetery plus a searchable database of the grant registers (originals 2935/2/ above)

PRO records of interest to me: HO 45/23369/922888 re Belgian Mil exhumations. AIR 2/12609 re RAF ground, includes cemetery pictures. WO 32/18171 & 2 re CWGC plus other plans of cemetery. WO 32/18578 & 9 re Moslem areas and Horsell common ground. 225/295 re Chelsea pensioners plot maintenance 1954.

Two Friends Groups.

Visited over a 15 year period. Burials of note are too numerous to include here – see SHC Z/436 for extensive details.

All of the references above are to records held by Surrey History Centre.

NOTE: in Dec 2014 Woking Borough Council acquired the shares in the two companies that owned Brookwood cemetery.


Brookwood is a village in the Woking district of Surrey.


Unless otherwise stated the dates for the creation of parishes are taken from Youngs, Frederick. A., jr.. Guide to the Administrative Units of England; Royal Historical Society: London, 1979 volume 1 Southern England.




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