[1][2][3] In 1855 Paddington Burial Board purchased 24 acres of rural land in Willesden.
Cemetery designer Thomas Little created a horse-shoe tree-lined path layout.
[4] On each side of the entrance he built lodges and in the centre, two Gothic-style chapels (grade II listed, Entry Number:1359002).
The City of Westminster sold the cemetery to Brent Council in 1986[8] and still manages it today (2000).
To celebrate the Millennium in 2000 new trees were planted and there is an apiary within the cemetery that produces 'Tombstone honey'.