Heritage Open Day at Undercliffe Cemetery

Join our researchers as they take you on a tour of this historic, still working, cemetery and explore the lives of ordinary (and sometimes extraordinary) folk whose final resting place Undercliffe Cemetery is.

Following a 5-year project, a dedicated team of transcribers and researchers have created a fully researchable database of just about every soul buried at Undercliffe since 1854. This has revealed some amazing stories, particularly of those who have no marked grave. We'll be telling some of those stories on our tours.

Undercliffe Cemetery fell into disrepair in the 1970s, was sold to a 'developer', and had to be rescued from destruction by a group of volunteers who formed Undercliffe Cemetery Charity. More than 40 years on, this amazing cemetery has been restored to glory & the volunteers' hard work was recognised by the late queen in 2022, one of the last QAVS honours she bestowed.