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Woking Asian Business Forum has been awarded £93,400 from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, for a 2-year project aimed at exploring and documenting minority burial grounds in Brookwood Cemetery. Unknown to most, Brookwood Cemetery is host to the highest...

Relocations follow long history of London reburials at Brookwood cemetery HS2 Ltd, working with the Archbishops’ Council of the Church of England, have agreed with Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey for reburials as a result of excavations at St James’s Gardens to take...

Woking Borough Council has approved plans that will support the ongoing conservation of Brookwood Cemetery and encourage visitors to explore this globally significant heritage site. The Masterplan and Experience Plan approved at Full Council (30 July 2020) set out a...

This week (Wednesday 1 July), The Earl of Wessex received a private tour of Brookwood Cemetery, one of the largest and culturally significant burial sites in the country. His Royal Highness was greeted by Strategic Asset Manager Ian Tomes...

A lost Victorian chapel, discovered in the undergrowth at Brookwood Cemetery, has been fully restored by Woking Borough Council. The exquisitely sculpted, Gothic style chapel, built almost entirely from Bath stone, has been sympathetically restored over the past five...

Built in 1858, the gothic revival style Mausoleum stands in the backwoods of Brookwood Cemetery, Plot 57 and was originally built as a cemetery mortuary chapel.  The architect was John Johnson and the sculptural decoration was carried out by W Boulton. The Mortuary...

One of the largest cemeteries in the country has received ‘Gold’ recognition for its high industry standards and good practice at the prestigious National Cemetery of the Year Awards Brookwood Cemetery won the 2018 Gold award in the Large Cemetery category at the...