Wimborne Road Cemetery in Bournemouth, Dorset

About

Get directions Wimborne Road
Bournemouth, Bournemouth Unitary Authority, Dorset BH3 7AB England

Coordinates: 50.73232, -1.87400
Cemetery ID:

Members have Contributed

About these numbers These percentages indicate the number of Find a Grave memorials that have a grave photo or GPS coordinates. We don't know the total number of burials in a cemetery, so we cannot calculate a percentage of those with memorials, photos or GPS coordinates.

Remove Ads

Photos

17 photo requests.

In 1872 a Burial Board was Formed and by 1878 Bournemouth Cemetery opened its was designed by Architect Christopher Crabbe Creeke (1820-1886) it had a grand entrance lodge (Sadly Demobilised in the 1960 and replaced with a building from this time) the chapel had a dedicated church of england and nonconformist sections, it also has mortuary chapel the cemetery had well planned landscaping making it a beautiful place to be laid to rest, The cemetery was consecrated in April 1878 and the first burial took place that month, In September 1886 ground for roman catholic burials consecrated.

There are commonwealth war graves from world war one and world war two at the cemetery.

The cemeteries name was changed at some point in time to wimborne road cemetery.

There are commonwealth war graves from world war one and world war two at the cemetery.

The cemeteries name was changed at some point in time to wimborne road cemetery.