Mill Road Cemetery is a

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off Mill Road in the Petersfield area of

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. Since 2001 the cemetery has been protected as a

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site, and several of the tombs are also listed as of special architectural and historical interest. The cemetery was established in 1848 on a site formerly occupied by a

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, as a collection of burial grounds for 13 city parishes (now 10 through amalgamation) whose churchyards had become full. A chapel built by

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was demolished in 1954. An outline of the chapel in carved stone was completed in 2017 as a record and memorial, made possible by the

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. All the plots are now closed for burials, and the cemetery as a whole is by law maintained by the City Council and managed on behalf of the parishes by the Parochial Burial Grounds Management Committee. December Snow 2009 - Mill Road Cemetery - geograph

December Snow 2009 - Mill Road Cemetery - geograph

The

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maintain the graves of 33 Commonwealth service personnel from

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and 4 from

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CWGC Cemetery report. The cemetery can be accessed from Mill Road, from Norfolk Street, or through the industrial estate on Gwydir Street. In February 2014 an art work entitled ''Bird Stones'' by Gordon Young (artist), Gordon Young was installed in the cemetery. Its one wooden and six stone columns celebrate the bird species found in the cemetery and their birdsong. The cemetery is also listed as a City Wildlife Site, containing many indicator plant species for undisturbed neutral/calcareous grassland amongst the 110+ species identified. At least 35 species of bird, 23 species of butterflies and several species of mammal have also been reported, including the European dormouse and weasel.

Burials

Biographies of some of those people interred in the cemetery and images of their graves or monuments can be found on the cemetery website. * John Barnard (1794–1878), amateur cricketer.Venn, ''

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'' * William Magan Campion (1820–1896), mathematician and President of Queens' College, Cambridge *

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(1821–1895), mathematician. The headstone is no longer standing.''

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'' A wreath was placed at Cayley's grave, with a graveside address by Samuel Dickstein, at the 1912

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. * James Challis (1803–1882), astronomer. * John Willis Clark (1833–1910), university administrator and antiquary. * Charles Henry Cooper (1808–1866), biographer and antiquary. * Percival Frost (1817–1898), mathematician. * George Garrett (1834–1897), organist and composer. * Daniel Hayward, cricketer; father of Thomas Hayward * Thomas Hayward (1835–1876), cricketer, son of Daniel Hayward * Fenton Hort (1828–1892), theologian and bible scholar. * George Murray Humphry (1820–1896), surgeon. * Benjamin Hall Kennedy (1804–1889), classicist. * Marion Kennedy (1836–1914), classical scholar. *

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(1813–1857), publisher. * Eiríkr Magnússon (1833–1913), Icelandic scholar. * James Rattee (1820–1855), woodcarver and mason. * Robert Sayle (1816–1883), enterprising retailer *

John Robert Seeley Sir John Robert Seeley, Order of St. Michael and St. George, KCMG (10 September 1834 – 13 January 1895) was an English Liberal Party (UK), Liberal historian and political essayist. A founder of British imperial history, he was a prominent adv ...

(Sir) (1834–1895) Regius Professor of History, Cambridge University, and wife Mary Agnes Seeley (1839–1921), * Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (1819–1903), FRS, physicist. His gravestone "has now vanished from view". *

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(1820–1884), mathematician.Jonathan Smith, Christopher Stray, eds., ''Teaching and learning in nineteenth-century Cambridge'', p. 186 * Cordelia Whewell and Everina Frances (Lady Affleck), the wives of

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(1794–1866) FRS, Master of

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Welcome to Mill Road Cemetery
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