The cemetery stands atop a hillside overlooking the city and contains Victorian funerary monuments in a variety of styles.

It is a notable example of a Victorian cemetery where a number of rich and prominent local residents have been buried, including mill owners and former mayors.

Undercliffe Cemetery is grade II* listed by English Heritage in their Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England.

[1][3][4] Membership of the company included local notables Henry Brown, Robert Milligan, William Rand, Edward Ripley and Titus Salt.

[4] With its laid out gardens, lawns, shrubbery and few graves the cemetery became popular for promenading in an age before Bradford had its first public park.

In 1980 the site was sold to a property developer[4] then the chapels were demolished along with the lodges at the north and south entrances and some kerbstones were removed.

[2][3][4][12] It emerged that the registration of the cemetery to the property developer had been refused by the Land Registry under a clause that prohibits the sale of consecrated ground that has been used for burial.

[16] The cemetery contains the graves and memorials of the rich and famous, local industrialists, ex-mayors, businessmen, professionals, mill workers, and their relatives.

[26] Behind the Cross of Sacrifice a low kerb memorial lists Commonwealth service personnel buried in the cemetery whose graves could not be marked by headstones.