Horton Road Cemetery, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, Church History

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Horton Road Cemetery, Gloucester

Horton Road Cemetery,
Horton Road,
Gloucester, Gloucestershire.

Church History

This Cemetery or Burial Ground was founded in 1848, but we understand it was closed in 1992.

This delightful little Cemetery is owned by The United Reformed Church. The burial register covers the period 1848 to 1961, with 2 subsequent burials in 1983 and 1992, though the majority of the burials are Victorian. Management of the Cemetery is currently a joint venture between the URC, Gloucester City Council and The Friends of Horton Road Cemetery and it is now maintained as a wildlife haven; sheep are grazed there during autumn and winter, provided by the City Council's Countryside Unit, and a variety of flora and fauna have been observed.
It is one of five sites in Gloucester which are part of the Urban Greenspace Project. More details are available on Gloucester City Council website, where it is described as "an old cemetery with mature trees and grassland meadow off Horton Road near the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital". The other sites in Gloucester are Appleton Way Meadow (Abbeydale), Barnwood Arboretum (Hucclecote), Green Farm Orchard (a mature Perry Pear orchard, in Quedgeley), and Saintbridge Balancing Pond (a large pond situated off Cheyney Close).
Some of the graves are still tended. There is a wonderful variety of headstones with a least three being made of cast iron, though unfortunately, it hasn't been possible to read any of the inscriptions from our photographs. [Sources: John Williams, Rosemary Lockie, and Gloucester City Council website]

Denomination

Now or formerly a Cemetery (United Reformed).

In most cases this will be a record of its original consecration.

Maps

This Cemetery was located at OS grid reference SO8450118709. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

Horton Road Cemetery, Gloucester shown on a Google Map.
Places of Worship in Gloucester shown on a Google Map.
Streetmap.co.uk (arrow on map shows the Place of Worship's location) (verified 2018-10-15)
Bing (Ordnance Survey option) (verified 2018-10-13)
Bing Maps ('Bird's Eye' View) (verified 2018-10-15)
Ordnance Survey "getamap" (NB some of the 'Change Map' options may require a subscription) (verified 2018-10-15)
OpenStreetMap (Maps © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA) (verified 2018-10-15)
A Vision of Britain Through Time - useful for Boundary Changes (verified 2018-10-15)
www.magic.gov.uk (Modern Maps with various overlays) (verified 2018-10-15)

Resources

I have found many websites of use whilst compiling the information for this database. Here are some which deserve mention as being of special interest for Gloucester, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.

The Local Government website of Gloucester City Council (null) (verified 2018-11-09)

The above links were selected and reviewed at the time I prepared the information, but please be aware their content may vary, or disappear entirely. These factors are outside my control.

Information last updated on 10 Nov 2018 at 15:51.

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This Report was created 24 Dec 2024 - 18:01:04 GMT from information held in the Gloucestershire section of the Places of Worship Database. This was last updated on 13 Oct 2021 at 14:13.

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