West Norwood Cemetery guided walk

The Friends of West Norwood Cemetery is a charity dedicated to the care and preservation of this extraordinary cemetery. Your support is greatly appreciated.

West Norwood Cemetery

One of the Magnificent Seven - Victorian cemeteries set up by private companies between 1833-1841 to provide for London’s expanding population. Your guide is an expert on the Victorian era. A key feature of the cemetery is its ornate Gothic monuments and mausolea. Known as the Millionaires’ Cemetery, West Norwood is predominantly the resting place of self-made industrialists, inventors and manufacturers. The sheer variety of stylised grave stones and monuments (Gothic, Classical, Italianate, Egyptian) is a testament to the commercial expansion of nineteenth-century memorial masonry which, crucially, enabled the self-fashioning of new identities.

Please meet by the entrance archway in good time for a prompt start at 2.30pm.

How to get here:

West Norwood Cemetery and Crematorium SE27 9JU is next to St Luke's Church and West Norwood Library

Buses: 2, 68, 196, 315, 322, 432 and 468 (several of these routes go via Brixton Tube Station: 2, 196, 322, 432). Robson Road stop

Train: West Norwood Station (trains to and from London Bridge/Victoria)

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