LONDON
Hampstead NW6 1DR Fortune Green Road
Friends of Hampstead Cemetery
Contact: Bernard
Heymann 5 Ranulf
Rd London NW2
1BT
Opened
in 1876, Hampstead Cemetery was established as a municipal burial
ground and Camden London Borough Council are the current owners.
initially the area covered 20 acres. It was landscaped by Joseph
Metson, possibly the most important landscape gardener of the 1880's
and most of his original plans were followed. Charles Bell designed the
two linked chapels and the gate lodge [all now Grade II listed]. A
further 5 acres were added at the close of the century. Improvements
are now taking place.
Famous persons buried there include
Ronald Fraser stage and screen actor
Gladys Cooper stage and screen actress
Nigel Balchin author