Ford Park Cemetery

Designation:
Historic England Register Grade II*
Type:
  • Cemetery
Period/Century:
  • C19
Post Code:
PL4 6NT
Parish:
Plymouth
Local Authority:
Plymouth
OS Grid Ref:
SX 47659 55841
Description:

A mid C19 cemetery laid out to the design of J R Hamilton and J M Medland of Gloucester over 34-acres. For a full description view the Historic England Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest.

Ford Park Cemetery is the final resting place of more than 750 service members from the First World War alone, 200 of whom are laid to rest in a dedicated naval plot. The cemetery also holds 198 war graves from the Second World War. In the older burial section near the Grade II-listed Victorian chapel, large circular vaults stand as a reminder of the past—some still bearing the scars of air raids from World War II.

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History

A thirty four acre working cemetery in the heart of the city of Plymouth. Founded in 1848 now owned and managed by the Ford Park Cemetery Trust, a company limited by guarantee with charitable status.