The General Cemetery in the City of Sheffield, England opened in 1836 and closed for burial in 1978.[1] It was the principal cemetery in Victorian Sheffield with over 87,000 burials. Today it is a listed Landscape (Grade II*) on the English Heritage National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.[1] It is also a Local Nature Reserve.[2][3] It is owned by the City of Sheffield and managed on behalf of the city by a local community group, the Sheffield General Cemetery Trust.