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Brookwood Cemetery is a burial ground in Brookwood, Surrey, England. Also known as the London Necropolis, it was established by the London Necropolis Company in 1852 to house London's dead, since the capital was finding it difficult to accommodate its increasing population, both of living and dead. Landscaped by architect William Tite, by 1854 it was the largest cemetery in the world (it is no longer) and over 240,000 people have been buried there including Muslim peoples
It was situated close to Woking, Surrey, and was accessible only by rail from a special cemetery station — the London Necropolis railway station — next to Waterloo. The original station was relocated in 1902 but its successor was demolished after suffering bomb damage during World War II.
A military cemetery was added in 1917 and contains some of the dead from World War I and World War II. A military memorial was built in 1958. Memorialised here too is Edward the Martyr, King of England.
Some of the other notables interred in Brookwood Cemetery are:
- John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), American artist
- Said Bin Taimur of Muscat (1910-1972), Sultan of Oman 1932-1970
- Naji al-Ali (1937?-1987), Palestinian political cartoonist
- Margaret, Duchess of Argyll (1912-1993)
- Muhammad al-Badr (1926 – 1996) was an Imaam of Yemen.
- Dodi Al-Fayed (1955-1997), film producer, (original burial site, subsequently moved to the Al-Fayed estate in Surrey)
- Sir Dorabji Tata, Indian philanthropist
- Edith Thompson - executed in Holloway prison in 1923.
See also
External links
- Brookwood Cemetery - Official website
- Brookwood Cemetery
- Brookwood Cemetery - Brookwood War Memorial
- BRH: Asides
- Map sources for Brookwood Cemetery