East-the-Water Cemetery, Bideford

East-the-Water Cemetery (also known as Bideford Church Cemetery) was the Church of England burial ground[1] for East-the-Water, once a separate village but now a suburb of Bideford, in Devon, England.

Located on Barnstaple Road, the cemetery as of 2018[update] is abandoned and neglected, and the Victorian cemetery chapel is a dangerous structure on the verge of collapse.

The cemetery, opened in 1890, contains 476 graves holding 947 people.

Among these are 20 Commonwealth War Graves Commission burials, 7 from World War I and 13 from World War II, with their distinctive headstones.

[2][3] Buried at the back of the cemetery in adjacent plots are two recipient of the Victoria Cross: