East-the-Water Cemetery, Bideford

The entrance gates on Barnstaple Road with the chapel to the right

East-the-Water Cemetery (also known as Bideford Church Cemetery) was the Church of England burial ground[1] for East-the-Water, once a separate village but now a suburb of Bideford, in Devon, England. Located on Barnstaple Road, the cemetery as of 2018 is abandoned and neglected, and the Victorian cemetery chapel is a dangerous structure on the verge of collapse. Burials in Bideford now take place at Bideford Higher Cemetery.

The cemetery, opened in 1890, contains 476 graves holding 947 people. Among these are 20 Commonwealth War Graves Commission burials, 7 from World War I and 13 from World War II, with their distinctive headstones.[2][3]

  1. ^ East-the-Water Cemetery, Bideford - A history of East-the-Water
  2. ^ CWGC burials at East-the-Water Cemetery, Bideford
  3. ^ Commonwealth War Graves Bideford Church Cemetery - Traces of War website