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Mill Road Cemetery

History of Mill Road Cemetery

Designated Building of Local Interest: headstones, memorial and boundary wall

Mill Road cemetery was constructed between 1844 and 1848 to a plan by Andrew Murray, curator of the Botanic Garden in Cambridge. The Gothic chapel built by Scott 1856-8 has been demolished.

The site had been previously used by the University as a cricket ground before Fenner’s was built. This is shown in the map of circa 1850 along with the Barnwell New Chapel that must have been demolished later.

see: Town v Gown; City v Village A History of Cricket in Cambridge, Tony Watts (2025)

Old University Cricket Ground and Barnwell New Church circa 1850

Copper Weathervane in the form of a cockerel from the chapel of Mill Road cemetery (MoC)

Watch Jo Costin give a short historical tour of the Cemetery for Open Cambridge 2020.

 

Census

1861 Cemetery Lodge

Charles Simpkin, 50, cemetery porter, b Norfolk

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