Hitchin Cemetery

It has been owned and managed by North Hertfordshire District Council since 1974 and has a Chapel which can accommodate about 50 mourners[1] which is available for the burial of all faiths.

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.

Hitchin Local Board of Health appointed a Burial Board to create the cemetery using funds from the Borough Rate under the Burial Act of 1853; the main body of the cemetery was laid out by George Beaver and opened in 1857, with the Lodge Cottage and Chapel being built in the same year.

The Delmé-Radcliffe Family, who owned Hitchin Priory from 1548 to 1965, have a burial plot near the Lodge Cottage.

[3] The cemetery covers approximately 5.64 hectares in total, divided into three separate sections based on the age of the burials.