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Mill Road Cemetery is a

cemetery A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a bu ...

off Mill Road in the Petersfield area of

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. Since 2001 the cemetery has been protected as a

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site, and several of the tombs are also listed as of special architectural and historical interest. The cemetery was established in 1848 on a site formerly occupied by a

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, as a collection of burial grounds for 13 city parishes (now 10 through amalgamation) whose churchyards had become full. A chapel built by

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was demolished in 1954. An outline of the chapel in carved stone was completed in 2017 as a record and memorial, made possible by the

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. All the plots are now closed for burials, and the cemetery as a whole is by law maintained by the City Council and managed on behalf of the parishes by the Parochial Burial Grounds Management Committee. December Snow 2009 - Mill Road Cemetery - geograph

December Snow 2009 - Mill Road Cemetery - geograph

The

Commonwealth War Graves Commission The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations m ...

maintain the graves of 33 Commonwealth service personnel from

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and 4 from

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.
CWGC Cemetery report. The cemetery can be accessed from Mill Road, from Norfolk Street, or through the industrial estate on Gwydir Street. In February 2014 an art work entitled ''Bird Stones'' by Gordon Young (artist), Gordon Young was installed in the cemetery. Its one wooden and six stone columns celebrate the bird species found in the cemetery and their birdsong. The cemetery is also listed as a City Wildlife Site, containing many indicator plant species for undisturbed neutral/calcareous grassland amongst the 110+ species identified. At least 35 species of bird, 23 species of butterflies and several species of mammal have also been reported, including the European dormouse and weasel.

Burials

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Biographies of some of those people interred in the cemetery and images of their graves or monuments can be found on
Mill Road Cemetery, Cambridge
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John Barnard John Edward Barnard (born 4 May 1946, Wembley, London) is an English engineer and racing car designer. Barnard is credited with the introduction of two new designs into Formula One: the carbon fibre composite chassis first seen in with McLar ...

(1794–1878), amateur cricketer.Venn, ''

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'' * William Magan Campion (1820–1896), mathematician and President of Queens' College, Cambridge *

Arthur Cayley Arthur Cayley (; 16 August 1821 – 26 January 1895) was a prolific British mathematician who worked mostly on algebra. He helped found the modern British school of pure mathematics. As a child, Cayley enjoyed solving complex maths problem ...

(1821–1895), mathematician. The headstone is no longer standing.''

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'' A wreath was placed at Cayley's grave, with a graveside address by Samuel Dickstein, at the 1912

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. * James Challis (1803–1882), astronomer. * John Willis Clark (1833–1910), university administrator and antiquary. *

Charles Henry Cooper Charles Henry Cooper (20 March 1808 – 21 March 1866) was an English antiquarian. Life Born at Marlow, Buckinghamshire, he was descended from a family formerly of Bray in Berkshire. He was privately educated in Reading. In 1826 he settled in ...

(1808–1866), biographer and antiquary. * Percival Frost (1817–1898), mathematician. * George Garrett (1834–1897), organist and composer. *

Daniel Hayward Daniel Hayward (1807 – 29 May 1852) was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1832 to 1851. He was the father of Cambridge batsmen Thomas Hayward and Daniel Hayward junior; and the grandfather of Tom Hayward, t ...

, cricketer; father of Thomas Hayward * Thomas Hayward (1835–1876), cricketer, son of

Fenton Hort Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828–1892), known as F. J. A. Hort, was an Irish-born theologian and editor, with Brooke Foss Westcott of a critical edition of ''The New Testament in the Original Greek''. Life He was born on 23 April 1828 ...

(1828–1892), theologian and bible scholar. *

George Murray Humphry Sir George Murray Humphry, FRS (18 July 1820 – 24 September 1896) was a professor of physiology and anatomy at Cambridge, surgeon, gerontologist and medical writer. Life He was born at Sudbury in Suffolk on 18 July 1820, the third son of Wil ...

(1820–1896), surgeon. * Benjamin Hall Kennedy (1804–1889), classicist. * Marion Kennedy (1836–1914), classical scholar. * Daniel MacMillan (1813–1857), publisher. *

Eiríkr Magnússon The given name Eric, Erich, Erikk, Erik, Erick, or Eirik is derived from the Old Norse name ''Eiríkr'' (or ''Eríkr'' in Old East Norse due to monophthongization). The first element, ''ei-'' may be derived from the older Proto-Norse ''* ain ...

(1833–1913), Icelandic scholar. *

James Rattee James Rattee (1820–29 March 1855) was an English woodcarver and mason, especially noted for his skill in church ornamentation and restoration, for which his services were sought worldwide. Life Rattee was born at Fundenhall, Norfolk, in ...

(1820–1855), woodcarver and mason. *

Robert Sayle Robert Sayle was the founder of a department store located in Cambridge. History Robert Sayle was born in Southery, Norfolk in 1816. His father was a farmer; however, Robert did not continue in his father's footsteps and moved to London to le ...

(1816–1883), enterprising retailer *

John Robert Seeley Sir John Robert Seeley, KCMG (10 September 1834 – 13 January 1895) was an English Liberal historian and political essayist. A founder of British imperial history, he was a prominent advocate for the British Empire, promoting a concept of Gr ...

(Sir) (1834–1895) Regius Professor of History, Cambridge University, and wife Mary Agnes Seeley (1839–1921), *

Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet, (; 13 August 1819 – 1 February 1903) was an Irish English physicist and mathematician. Born in County Sligo, Ireland, Stokes spent all of his career at the University of Cambridge, where he was the Luc ...

(1819–1903), FRS, physicist. His gravestone "has now vanished from view". *

Isaac Todhunter Isaac Todhunter FRS (23 November 1820 – 1 March 1884), was an English mathematician who is best known today for the books he wrote on mathematics and its history. Life and work The son of George Todhunter, a Nonconformist minister, a ...

(1820–1884), mathematician.Jonathan Smith, Christopher Stray, eds., ''Teaching and learning in nineteenth-century Cambridge'', p.186 * Cordelia Whewell and Everina Frances (Lady Affleck), the wives of

William Whewell William Whewell ( ; 24 May 17946 March 1866) was an English polymath, scientist, Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian, and historian of science. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. In his time as a student there, he achieved ...

(1794–1866) FRS, Master of

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