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CAMBRIDGE
General
CEMETERY
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Visitors
ARE REQUESTED
TO KEEP ON THE
GRAVEL PATHS
AND NOT TO PLUCK
THE FLOWERS
OR INJURE THE
SHRUBS
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No gratuity
allowed to be
received by
the Curator.

The Cambridge General Cemetery Company was founded in 1843 by a group of local nonconformist businessmen, to provide a burial site open to all. The noted garden designer John Claudius Loudon planned the layout and planting with trees and shrubs.

The company was wound up in 1936 and a chapel (designed by the rogue Gothic architect Edward Buckton Lamb) was demolished in 1957, but Lamb's original lodge in Histon Road Link remains in use as a private residence, punningly named Grave's End. Maintenance of the cemetery is now the responsibility of the City Council with the aid of a volunteer group of Friends.

Histon Road Cemetery Link is listed Grade II* Link