Mount Cemetery, also known as Guildford Cemetery, is a

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Guildford Guildford () is a town in west Surrey, England, around south-west of central London. As of the 2011 census, the town has a population of about 77,000 and is the seat of the wider Borough of Guildford, which had around inhabitants in . The nam ...

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. It is the location of Booker's Tower. Guildford Cemetery is surrounded by low-density houses with gardens and a covered reservoir beyond the east corner, immediately south of the successive residential streets of the Guildford Park and Farnham Road neighbourhoods west of Guildford, on the 'Guildown' or 'Mount' section of the western

North Downs The North Downs are a ridge of chalk hills in south east England that stretch from Farnham in Surrey to the White Cliffs of Dover in Kent. Much of the North Downs comprises two Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Areas of Outstanding Natural Be ...

here forming the widest section of the

Hog's Back The Hog's Back is a hilly ridge, part of the North Downs in Surrey, England. It runs between Farnham, Surrey, Farnham in the west and Guildford in the east. Toponym Compared with the main part of the Downs to the east of it, it is a narrow el ...

. Guildford Cemetery has in part views overlooking the town centre. Plots have been laid out to the maximum number its civic authority owner permits under rules set out in the 2000s. Burials are permitted in plots reserved or within an existing family grave to the deceased subject to a maximum of four related burials per plot. The cemetery contains the war graves of 33 Commonwealth service personnel, 14 from the

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and 19 from the

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Notable interred

Edward Carpenter Edward Carpenter (29 August 1844 – 28 June 1929) was an English utopian socialist, poet, philosopher, anthologist, an early activist for gay rights and prison reform whilst advocating vegetarianism and taking a stance against vivise ...

, the gay socialist poet and activist, and partner of George Merrill. *

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer and reluctant Anglican deacon. His most notable works are ''Alice's Adventures ...

("Lewis Carroll"), the author of ''

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''. * Edwin Heron Dodgson, the younger brother of C. L. Dodgson, a missionary * Five of Charles and Edwin Dodgson's seven sisters are also buried here * Sir Alfred Gaselee, army general * Sir John Rose, 1st Baronet, Canadian Finance Minister

Publications

In 2005 Guildford Museum published ''... and the Lord Taketh Away'', an illustrated guide to the cemetery.''... and the Lord Taketh Away'', by Roger Nicholas.

Gallery

File:Edwin Dodgson Grave.2015.jpg, The grave of Edwin Dodgson File:Edward Carpenter Grave 2015.jpg, The Grave of

and George Merrill File:Dodgson Family Graves 2015.jpg, The Dodgson Family Graves

Notes and references

External links

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Folkes Photography images at Mount Cemetery
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