Biggleswade Cemetery

Opening in 1869, the cemetery is located on Drove Road and since 1986 has been closed for burials except for interment in family plots.

[1] As a result of two cholera epidemics in England during the 19th century a large number of public cemeteries were created across the country during the 1850s and 1860s.

Biggleswade founded a Burial Board in 1867 and two acres on the east of the town were purchased for the new cemetery at a cost of £1,500.

The first burial in the Drove Road Cemetery was in 1869, when St Andrew's churchyard in the town centre was closed, and the last was in 1986.

It was designed by architects Ladds & Hooker of London and the building work was carried out by local builder Edward Twelvetrees, who is buried in the cemetery with his wife.