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	Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Brookwood Cemetery is located about 30 miles Southwest of London, just outside the village of Brookwood, between Woking, Guildford and Aldershot.
		As Brookwood could be reached cheaply and conveniently only by railway, the London and South Western Railway was engaged to convey coffins and mourners from Waterloo to the Cemetery.
		Brookwood Cemetery was consecrated by the Bishop of Winchester on 7th November 1854 and opened to the public from 13th November.
	www.brookwoodcemetery.com /page2.html (356 words)

	Rookwood Cemetery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Rookwood Cemetery (officially named Rookwood Necropolis) is the largest multicultural necropolis in the Southern Hemisphere, close to Lidcombe Station in Sydney, Australia, about 15 kilometres west of the central business district.
		In the past the Cemetery was served by a branch railway line with 4 separate Mortuary Stations.
		Rookwood Cemetery is one of the best and largest surviving examples of a Victorian cemetery in the world.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rookwood_Cemetery (273 words)

	House of Commons - Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs - Memoranda
		Brookwood's importance in the Victorian celebration of death should be formally recognised by the Government and organisations such as English Heritage, and it should be acknowledged as a site of national importance.
		Brookwood is a multicultural cemetery, and a walk through its different sections is a cultural education by itself.
		Brookwood remains privately owned yet, despite sympathetic management, it is impossible for the current owners to undertake major restoration work of important memorials and monuments, and indeed the landscape in general, out of current receipts.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm200001/cmselect/cmenvtra/91/91m69.htm (2514 words)

	Brookwood Cemetery -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Brookwood Cemetery is a burial ground in (A division of the United Kingdom) England.
		By 1854, it was the largest (A tract of land used for burials) cemetery in the world (it is no longer) and over 240,000 people have been buried there.
		A military cemetery was added in 1917 and contains some of the dead from (A war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the central powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918) World War I and World War II.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/br/brookwood_cemetery.htm (273 words)

	Brookwood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The World War I Brookwood American Cemetery and Memorial is located southwest of the town of Brookwood, Surrey, England, about six miles north of Guildford and nine miles north-east of Aldershot.
		This small cemetery of four and a half acres lies within the large civilian cemetery of the London Necropolis Company and contains the graves of 468 American military Dead from World War I. Close by are military cemeteries and monuments of the British Commonwealth and other Allied nations.
		The cemetery is open daily to the public from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm except December 25 and January 1.
	www.abmc.gov /bk.htm (293 words)

	Cemetery - Veterans Affairs Canada
		The main entrance to Brookwood Military Cemetery is on the A324 from the village of Pirbright.
		Brookwood Military Cemetery is owned by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and is the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the United Kingdom, covering approximately 37 acres.
		In 1917, an area of land in Brookwood Cemetery (originally The London Necropolis) was set aside for the burial of men and women of the forces of the Commonwealth and Americans, who had died, many of battle wounds, in the London district.
	www.vac-acc.gc.ca /general/sub.cfm?source=collections/virtualmem/cem&cemetery=44400 (139 words)

	Brookwood Cemetary
		Brookwood is located on the main Waterloo to Portsmouth train-line, one stop after Woking.
		The cemetary is accessible from Brookwood train station and is open from 10am until dusk (at this time of year, that's about 4.30pm).
		The train station adjoins the cemetery itself and by exiting the station to the back I was in the cemetery.
	www.jssgallery.org /Resources/Photos/Places/Brookwood_Cemetary.htm (669 words)

	The London Necropolis Railway - London, UK : citynoise.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Cemetery space in the city had failed to keep pace with this growth, and so the vast new Brookwood Cemetery - the London Necropolis - was built in Surrey.
		Brookwood was the largest burial ground in the world when it was opened in 1854 by the London Necropolis & National Mausoleum Company.
		In the Cemetery grounds two private stations were provided, one for each main portion of the burial ground.
	www.citynoise.org /article/1769 (750 words)

	Historical Notes on Brookwood Cemetery (London Necropolis, Great Woking Cemetery) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As Brookwood could be reached cheaply and conveniently only by railway, the London & South Western Railway was engaged to convey coffins and mourners from a private station adjacent to Waterloo down into the Cemetery.
		Brookwood Cemetery was consecrated by the Bishop of Winchester on 7 November 1854 and opened to the public on 13 November 1854.
		Brookwood is vast - almost rural - and is quite unlike any of the other London cemeteries it was designed to surpass and replace.
	www.tbcs.org.uk /history.htm (424 words)

	Victorian London Cemeteries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Before the middle of the 19th century such cemeteries were generally run as commercial ventures, but after the passing of legislation in the 1850s enforcing the closure of urban churchyards, municipal cemeteries became the rule.
		Brookwood Cemetery in Woking (Surrey), opened as a private cemetery by the London Necropolis & National Mausoleum Company in 1854, and others competed to undertake contracts tendered each year by several London boroughs for the burial of their poor.
		Brookwood probably buried half of East London and to facilitate this Waterloo Station had a special casket-loading platform, and trains containing funeral parties ran daily to a Gothic station built within the cemetery itself.
	www.gendocs.demon.co.uk /cem.html (1158 words)

	HOLTEN CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
		Wheelchair access to cemetery possible, but may be by an alternative entrance.
		The great majority of those buried in Holten Canadian War Cemetery died during the last stages of the war in Holland, during the advance of the Canadian 2nd Corps into northern Germany, and across the Ems in April and the first days of May 1945.
		After the end of hostilities their remains were brought together into this cemetery.
	www.sarvaofcanada.ca /cemetery/HOLTEN.htm (234 words)

	World War I - South Carolina Soldiers Buried Overseas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This forty-two acre cemetery with the headstones lying in a sweeping curve at the foot of the hill where stands Belleau Wood.
		At the ends of the paths leading to three of the corners of the cemetery are circular retreats with benches and urns.
		At this cemetery site of thirty six acres, beneath the broad lawn surrounded by stately trees and shrubbery, rest 6,012 Americans who died while fighting in this vicinity during World War I. Their headstones are aligned in long rows and rise in a gentle slope from the entrance at the far end.
	sciway3.net /proctor/state/ww1/scww1_eurbur.html (1086 words)

	Pershings' Doughboys WW1 Living History Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Brookwood is located in the county of Surrey, England and is 6 miles north of Guildford, and 9 miles northeast of Aldershot.
		The cemetery can be reached by rail from Waterloo Station, London, alighting at Brookwood Station which is approximately 300 yards from the cemetery enterance.
		Brookwood, in Surrey, which is the resting place of over four hundred US servicemen from the 1914-18 conflict, and of course Madingley near Cambridge, which is home of the American fallen from the 1939-45 conflict.
	website.lineone.net /~hollis_wood/doughweb/memnorm04.html (1469 words)

	The Brookwood Necropolis Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The "London Necropolis" was intended to become London's only cemetery by providing enough land to contain all the metropolitan dead for an almost indefinite period.
		The London Necropolis Company was established in 1852 and provided the Brookwood cemetery near Woking in Surrey.
		This book discusses in detail the process by which bodies and the funeral followers were transported to the Brookwood cemetery, how that differed depending upon the deceased standing in society, and what costs were involved.
	www.rootsweb.com /~wiilbig/RevFiles/v3n4r3.htm (236 words)

	Record of Commemoration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Brookwood is 30 miles from London (M3 to Bagshot and then A322).
		The Memorial is made of Portland stone and the names of those commemorated are carved on panels of green slate.
		A separate panel commemorates the loss at sea of 639 members of the African Pioneer Corps, whose names are recorded individually on memorials in their home countries of Lesotho and Botswana.
	www.hants.gov.uk /westendlhs/mem39-45/bush.htm (71 words)

	Rushmoor Borough Council - Field Marshall Sir William (Wully) Robertson
		On reaching Brookwood the trains entered the cemetery along a branch line and proceeded to one or both of the two stations within the grounds.
		The station on the main line at Brookwood was not built for a further 10 years, but the service was reasonably priced and popular, carrying up to 50 funerals a day, 7 days of the week.
		The Brookwood Cemetery Society are a dedicated band of volunteers who give up their spare time to clear some of the most interesting graves, which are grossly overgrown from years of neglect.
	www.rushmoor.gov.uk /index.cfm?articleid=1226 (2675 words)

	Demise of the Necropolis Railway by John M. Clarke
		At Brookwood Cemetery, near Woking, there were two cemetery stations serving the Nonconformist and Anglican sections of the burial ground.
		It conveyed the deceased and their accompanying mourners to their final resting place, the Brookwood Necropolis, which at one time was the largest cemetery in the world.
		In the cemetery there were two stations, one for the Anglican section and another for the Nonconformist section.
	www.historyplace.com /specials/clarke.htm (838 words)

	Brookwood Memorial - Veterans Affairs Canada
		The Brookwood Memorial stands in the large Military Cemetery, which forms part of the London Necropolis at Brookwood, west of Woking, 48 kilometres by road from London.
		It commemorates 3,475 men and women of the land forces of the British Commonwealth and Empire who died during the Second World War and whose names could not appropriately be recorded on any of the campaign memorials in the different theatres of war.
		The garden in which the Memorial stands is at the south end of the Canadian Section (Second World War) of Brookwood Military Cemetery, on the far side of St. Lawrence Avenue - the highway leading in from the main entrance on the Pirbright road.
	www.vac-acc.gc.ca /general/sub.cfm?source=memorials/ww2mem/brookwood (423 words)

	Facilities - Page 7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Located southwest of the town of Brookwood, Surrey, England, this small cemetery of 4.5 acres is set within a large civilian cemetery.
		Situated three miles west of the university city of Cambridge, England, this 30.5-acre cemetery was donated by the University of Cambridge.
		Lying on the southeast edge of the town of Waregem, Belgium, the cemetery occupies a six-acre site containing 368 Americans who died liberating the soil of Belgium in World War I. The chapel walls contain the names of 43 missing.
	www.abmc.gov /ar97_07.htm (361 words)

	CAST - WW2 War Graves
		Just outside the military cemetery is an area containing more than 60 graves of other Czechoslovaks who served with their forces and lived in Britain after the war.
		As well as access by road there is also a pedestrian entrance from Brookwood railway station on the north side of the military cemetery.
		Buried in the cemetery of St. Mary's Church (in fact in the outskirts of the town on the A38 road to Wellington), grave number 2-5354 (the other source says 8346).
	www.geocities.com /czechandslovakthings/WW2_wargraves.htm (781 words)

	National Federation of Cemetery Friends - How We Started (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The formation of a number of groups of volunteers with the common aim of conserving their local cemeteries led, in 1986, to the founding of The National Federation of Cemetery Friends.
		Many of the Cemetery Friends started as pressure groups to counter owner's neglect of a cemetery or proposals for inappropriate use.
		There are unfortunately some cemeteries that have no "friends" and are still sadly neglected, and where vandalism is rife.
	www.cemeteryfriends.fsnet.co.uk /welcome.html (191 words)

	Riding the Death Line
		All that remains of the two cemetery stations is their platforms, complete with the characteristic dip in their trackside edges to help LNC staff unload coffins from the hearse vans’ bottom shelves.
		The Brookwood Cemetery Society conducts regular walking tours of the cemetery, following the route of its old railway line and pointing out the odd bit of track hardware which remains.
		Strolling round the cemetery at random, he chanced on the remains of North Station, and wondered what a railway platform was doing in the middle of a cemetery.
	www.forteantimes.com /articles/179_deathline4.shtml (1118 words)

	All posts tagged with cemetery \| Metafilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The London Necropolis Railway During the first half of the 19th century, London's population more than doubled and the number of London corpses requiring disposal was growing almost as fast.
		Brookwood was the largest burial ground in the world when it was opened in 1854 by the London Necropolis and National Mausoleum Company.
		All of the dissidents buried at the Kirkh Islamic Cemetery were once held at Abu Ghreib prison, the country's largest and most notorious jail, from which Hussein released nearly 10,000 inmates last October.
	www.metafilter.com /tags/cemetery (348 words)

	WW1 Fatal Casualties Shawnee County
		This forty-two acre cemetery, with its headstones lying in a sweeping curve, sits at the foot of the hill where stands Belleau Wood.
		Within the cemetery the headstones are arranged in four plots, grouped about the flagpole.
		In the rooms at the ends of the loggias are white marble figures in memory of those who gave their lives in these two wars.
	www.tgstopeka.org /gravestones03.html (1228 words)

	Rushmoor Borough Council - St John's - Brookwood- Pirbright Bridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Opposite two houseboats moored on the towpath side is a winding hole and the grounds of Brookwood Hospital opened in 1867 as the Surrey County Asylum.
		Climbing the Brookwood Three flight of locks, the canal remains pleasantly rural with residential gardens on the opposite bank and open fields, giving way to woodland on the towpath side.
		On the south side of the mainline railway, a gate from the station gives access to Brookwood Cemetery established by the London Necropolis Company in 1854 The cemetery was landscaped by Sir William Tite and Sidney Smirke to bury Londoners who died of cholera.
	www.rushmoor.gov.uk /index.cfm?articleid=479&articleaction=print (443 words)

	ANCESTORS OF TREVOR ROY HOWARD - trhg03 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		She was buried with William at Brookwood Cemetery (Woking Ground, Plot 114, no. 226035).
		Ida had died five years earlier and Harry was buried with her at Brookwood Cemetery (Woking Ground Plot 43).
		She was buried in Brookwood cemetery (Woking Ground, Plot 43, no. 201626).
	homepage.ntlworld.com /trev.rh/Fhist/trevh/trhg03.htm (707 words)

	The Shepherd 8, July 2004
		The cemetery, the largest in the country extends to four hundred acres and it is estimated that a quarter of a million people have been buried here, so the task of producing a guide was no small one.
		After a Foreword by Dr Julian W. Litten, and the author’s 38 page introduction in which he gives a history of the cemetery, he divides the cemetery into various sections and then proceeds to mention all the notable memorials and mausolea, often giving short biographies of the people laid to rest there.
		His study, which incidentally begins with the Saint Edward Brotherhood, is a fascinating and meticulous account of the cemetery, and it well deserves the attention of our readers.
	www.saintedwardbrotherhood.org /0704/shepherd8.html (389 words)

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