Sheffield General Cemetery

Today it is a listed Landscape (Grade II*) on the English Heritage National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.

The General Cemetery (grid reference SK342859) is located just over a mile to the south-west of Sheffield city centre, in the district of Sharrow.

Its opening in 1836 as a Nonconformist cemetery was a response to the rapid growth of Sheffield and the relatively poor state of the town's churchyards.

The cemetery, with its Greek Doric and Egyptian style buildings, was designed by Sheffield architect Samuel Worth (1779–1870) on the site of a former quarry.

[4] Robert Marnock who also designed Sheffield Botanical Gardens (1836) and Weston Park (1873) acted as a landscape consultant for this initial phase.

Sandford's Walk at Sheffield General Cemetery
The Cemetery in the 1830s, seen from Ecclesall Road .