[3][4][5] The graveyard is compounded on one side that is towards the main road, and fenced with barbed wire.

It is located near Shahi Pologround, found along Khazana Road in the direction of Barmas.

[3] In July 1870, during his journey to explore the Pamir Mountains, famous British explorer Lt. George W. Hayward was allegedly murdered by a local tribesman near the Darkot Pass in Ghizer (then part of a princely state).

[6][3] The cemetery was renovated in 2002 by the Pakistani government with full sponsorship from the United Kingdom.

[7] The cemetery contains 18 graves and among the buried are explorer Lt. George Hayward, political agents Maj. Arthur Francis and Lt. Henry Gordon Bell as well as various tourists and travellers who died during their stay in the region before the agency's dissolution.