WSFHS holds only war grave information for this cemetery
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https://www.wsfhs.co.uk/pages/sindex/siSearch.php (opens in new browser window) or use our contact form to find out which Monumental Inscription collections might be available: https://surreychurches.org.uk/contact Friends of Surrey Cemeteries (Surrey Cemeteries: a survey, 2012): Cranleigh Parish Council . 01483 272311. Visited in 2009 - It appears to have been opened round about 1900 and extended (sideways) twice, once in the last decade – area with plenty of space. Entrance lychgate wide enough for cars but little parking inside. Small (3/4 cars) space at gate which has footpath passing across it. Little sign of laying down or vandalism. Mature trees including grove of cedars, hedged surround, well kept. Gardeners present during our visit. Handful of war graves. A circular hedged rose garden (rather sad). Areas marked by ceramic markers and more modern metal ones. Houses all round cemetery now, area circa 6 acres. The cemetery is in the Ancient Parishan Ancient Parish is a Church of England parish which, until the 19th century, had both ecclesiastical and civil functions of Cranleigh St Nicholas. There are also Baptist, Roman Catholic and Methodist churches in Cranleigh, there were also an Evangelical Free church and a Plymouth Bretheran Meeting house both of which have now closed. West Surrey Family History Society CD10(Surrey Burial Index) has burial records for Cranleigh St Nicholas from 1609-1900. WSFHS CD33(Ancient Parishes in the Hambledon district) has baptismal records for Cranleigh St Nicholas from 1566-67 and 1608-1840; Marriages 1609-1837; and, Burials 1609-1840/ See our sales page for more information (opens in a new page). Cranleigh is a (civil) parisha Civil Parish is the bottom most tier of local government in England Sometimes called Town Councils in urban areas [NB Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have different systems of local government] in the Waverley district of Surrey.
Unless otherwise stated the dates for the creation of parishes are taken from Youngs, Frederick. A., Guide to the Administrative Units of England; Royal Historical Society: London, 1979 volume 1 Southern England.
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