Letchworth Cemetery (properly the Icknield Way Cemetery) was the first burial ground for

Letchworth Garden City Letchworth Garden City, commonly known as Letchworth, is a town in the North Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. It is noted for being the first Garden city movement, garden city. The population at the time of the 2021 United Kin ...

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. Letchworth's first cemetery and bordered by Icknield Way and Wilbury Hills Road, the cemetery is now closed for new burials but can be used if graves are being reopened and for prepurchased plots. Cremated remains are also still being interred at the cemetery. The car gates open and close automatically each day at dawn and dusk. Letchworth Cemetery has a small chapel which is available for services for children's funerals and can seat about eight mourners. The chapel also houses the Book of Remembrance which is available to view every day of the year, either inside or through its position at a rear window.Icknield Way Cemetery, Letchworth on the North Herts District Council website
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which are maintained by the

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. Today burials in Letchworth take place at the nearby Wilbury Hills Cemetery.Wilbury Hills Cemetery, Letchworth – North Herts District Council website
/ref> In 2013 the cemetery featured in an episode of the BBC series '' Who Do You Think You Are?'' when the actress

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visited the grave of her great-grandfather, garden city pioneer

Sir Ebenezer Howard Sir Ebenezer Howard (29 January 1850 – 1 May 1928) was an English urban planner and founder of the garden city movement, known for his publication '' To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform'' (1898), the description of a utopian city in wh ...

Notable burials

Adrian Fortescue Adrian Henry Timothy Knottesford Fortescue (14 January 1874 – 11 February 1923) was an Catholic Church in England and Wales, English Catholic priest and polymath. An influential liturgist, artist, calligrapher, composer, Polyglot (person ...

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priest,

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scholar, and adventurer. * William Henry Gaunt, English transport engineer. *

Ebenezer Howard Sir Ebenezer Howard (29 January 1850 – 1 May 1928) was an English urban planner and founder of the garden city movement, known for his publication '' To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform'' (1898), the description of a utopian city in wh ...

, founder of the

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Gallery

File:Ebenezer Howard Grave.jpg, The grave of Sir

in Letchworth Cemetery File:Adrian Fortescue Grave Letchworth.jpg, Grave of

File:William Henry Gaunt Grave Letchworth.jpg, Grave of William Henry Gaunt File:Letchworth Cemetery Chapel.jpg, The Chapel at Letchworth Cemetery File:Letchworth Cemetery Chapel Interior.jpg, The interior of the Chapel

References

External links

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Letchworth Cemetery Rules and Regulations - North Herts District Council

Photographs of the Cemetery Chapel - Hertfordshire Churches website
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