Godalming Nightingale Road Cemetery

Nightingale road / Deanery road. Opened 1857, closed 1955. 3 acres. 2 chapels and lodge.

First burial 11 May 1857 Agnes Hayward. 5527 recorded burials in 3 acres.

SHC 6846/3, 4 schematic map 1883 includes grave numbers plus burial register numbers and some names. Cemetery area defined here almost full. One unusual aspect is division of graves into Adult / Youth / Infant categories base on size. Grave classes not apparent. At this date some 1700 n/c and 2900 consecrated plots. Chapels non conformist and Episcopal.

www.interment.net has 61 records for the cemetery listed.

WSFHS Root & Branch Vol 32.4 Mar 2006 – Graham Stevens & Alan Benny filming burial registers, 2000 records to date.

Visited 2005 - On a slope, semi urban nice railings gates and kissing gates. Chapels now used as “Skillway” training centre for metal and woodwork for teenagers – benefactors the Haberdashers Company. Nice trees and large bushes, trimmed yews, well kept although grass quite long. Mixed memorials including some Compton. No mausolea, some seats, no public toilets. Nice Lodge now a home.

• Godalming St Peter and St Paul from 1583 to 1880;
• Godalming Eashing Municipal Cemetery from 1900 to 2003;
• Godalming Municipal Cemetery Nightingale Rd from 1857 to 1998 ;
• Godalming Harts Lane Chapel from 1786 to 1828.
• Farncombe St John the Evangelist from 1850 to 1865;
• Shackleford St Mary for 1865.

• Godalming St Peter and St Paul from 1863 to 1875;
• Godalming Congregational Church from 1871 to 1883.
• Farncombe St John the Evangelist from 1849 to 1878;
• Busbridge St John the Baptist from 1865 to 1876;
• Shackleford St Mary from 1866 to 1878

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