Witton Cemetery

Witton Cemetery
Chapel near the highest point
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Established1863 (1863)
Location
Birmingham
CountryEngland
Coordinates52°31′30″N 1°52′43″W / 52.5249°N 1.8787°W / 52.5249; -1.8787
Owned byBirmingham City Council
Websitewww.birmingham.gov.uk/witton-cemetery
Find a GraveWitton Cemetery
View of central Birmingham from the highest point of the cemetery. In the left foreground is a CWGC headstone marking one of the cemetery's 683 Commonwealth war graves.
1903 Ordnance Survey map

Witton Cemetery (grid reference SP082921), which opened in Witton in 1863 as Birmingham City Cemetery, is the largest cemetery in Birmingham, England. Covering an area of 103 acres (0.42 km2), it once had three chapels; however, two of these were demolished in 1980. The cemetery would perform up to 20 burials a day; however, it was declared "full to capacity" in December 2013, allowing burials only in existing family plots, or of babies or cremated remains.[1] Extra capacity was therefore provided at the nearby New Hall Cemetery.[1] The cemetery office was opened in 1999.

  1. ^ a b "Fears over chapel future as cemetery reaches capacity". Great Barr Observer. 28 February 2014.