Dorchester Cemetery in Dorchester, Dorset

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Get directions 31a Weymouth Avenue
Dorchester, West Dorset District, Dorset DT1 2EN England

Coordinates: 50.70621, -2.44228
www.dorchester-tc.gov.uk/Services/Cemeteries
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The graveyards attached to the churches in Dorchester (St George's, All Saints, the Holy Trinity, and St Peter) were declared to be nearing capacity in a report published in 1852 and burials were to be discontinued on 1st January 1855.

The first proper cemetery to be created was at Weymouth Avenue, on land acquired from the Duchy of Cornwall by the Burial Board of the Parishes of The Holy Trinity, St Peter and All Saints in 1856. The cemetery was subsequently extended by the purchase of more land at the northern and southern extremities of the cemetery to give the shape of the cemetery with which we are familiar today.