London Necropolis

City of the dead

Books, articles and pamphlets of interest

The links below are a mixture of links to full copies of books or articles (indicated by *) - or to areas on the web where you can purchase them.
This list is continuously under construction and if you are aware of any publications I should add please email me to let me know.

London Cemeteries - specifically about the cemeteries within London (includes invididual sections for individual cemeteries)
Cemeteries, Churchyards and other burial grounds - general links of interest
Tombstones and their symbolism (under construction)
Victorian Celebration of Death (under construction)

London Cemeteries

Knight, Charles ( ): London Vol III- Chapter LXXXVI - London Burials *

Loudon, J.C. ( ): On the Laying Out, Planting, and Managing of Cemeteries, and on the improvement of churchyards *

Old Humphrey ( ): Old Humphrey's Walks in London and its Neighbourhoods - The Cemeteries of London *

Timbs, John (1867): Curiosities of London exhibiting the most Rare and Remarkable Objects of Interest in the Metropolis with nearly Sixty Years' Personal Recollections (see index for the cemeteries of London) *

T he Pyramid vs. Pere La Chaise - The London Medical Gazette [Vol. 41, no. 1074] (June 30, 1848) *

Cunningham, P & Murray, John (1851) - Modern London; or, London as it is (contains mentions of burials and cemeteries in London) *

Cemeteries, graveyards and other burial grounds

Loudon, J.C. (1843) - The Gardner's Magazine and Register of Rural and domestic Improvements - On Laying Out, Planting and Managing of Cemeteries and on the Improvement of Churchyards *

Kensal Green Cemetery

Change for the American Notes: in Letters from London to New York by an American Lady (1843) - Letter XV (describes a visit to Kensal Green Cemetery and Abney Park Cemetery) *

The Gentleman's Magazine () - Obitury - Andrew Ducrow (interred at Kensal Green Cemetery) *

The Christian Observer and Advocate - Kensal Green Cemetery - For the Christian Observer *

Eliza Cook's Journal (1850) - Kensal Green Cemetery *

Mudford Esq, William ( 1837 - 1868 ): Bentley's Miscellany - Cemeteries and Churchyards - A Visit to Kensal Green *