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Wrexham Cemetery

1876 establishments in WalesBuildings and structures in WrexhamCemeteries in WalesRegistered historic parks and gardens in Wrexham County BoroughWrexham
Cemetery Chapel, Wrexham Cemetery geograph.org.uk 2345538
Cemetery Chapel, Wrexham Cemetery geograph.org.uk 2345538

Wrexham Cemetery (Welsh: Mynwent Wrecsam) is a Victorian garden cemetery in Wrexham, North Wales, which served as the main burial site for the city. It opened in 1876, to the park-like designs of Yeaman Strachan, while its grade II listed chapels and lodge were designed by William Turner. The cemetery was laid out to serve as Wrexham's unofficial first park, while initially arranging graves by social class, now confined to the Victorian section of the cemetery. It contains memorials dedicated to servicemen from the World Wars, with a dedicated Polish servicemen memorial. It was also one of the first sites in Wrexham allowing burials to non-conformists, with it being not directly associated with one established church. The cemetery is listed on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales. It was extended in 1890 and again by the 1960s, which form its modern (non-Victorian) sections. It underwent a refurbishment in 2016–2018, however has since limited new burial plots due to limited space. A World War II mortuary, only one in North Wales, was only re-discovered on the site in 2019.

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Wrexham Cemetery
Ruabon Road, Wrexham Felin Puleston

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N 53.039 ° E -3.006 °
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Ruabon Road

Ruabon Road
LL13 7RE Wrexham, Felin Puleston
Wales, United Kingdom
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