Tiverton Cemetery opened in 1855 on a three-acre site following a rapid growth in population nationally and locally during the early Victorian era.

The first burial occurred on 5 June 1855 and was of five-year-old Charles Harris from the Union Workhouse, the first of eight interments that week.

In December 1855 the first grave to be purchased was bought by George Askew, a local Tailor and Draper who had a triple wide vault built.

[1][2] By the middle of the 1880s the original cemetery was filling up and an adjoining plot of another three acres was purchased and opened in 1895.

The last extension to the cemetery opened in 2013 and was consecrated by Nick McKinnel, the Bishop of Crediton.