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Anfield Cemetery
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Year established	August 1863
Location	Anfield, Liverpool, Merseyside
Country	England
Type	Public
Owned by	Liverpool City Council
Size	110 acres (45 ha)
Website	http://www.anfieldcemetery.co.uk/
Find a Grave	http://liverpool-ancestors.co.uk/

Anfield Cemetery, also known as the City of Liverpool Cemetery, is on Priory Road, Anfield, Liverpool, England (grid reference SJ365940).

Anfield Cemetery opened in 1863.^[1] Anfield Crematorium opened in 1896.^[2]

It covers an area of some 110 acres (45 ha) and includes axial and circular paths, two chapels and a Gothic style catacomb.^[3] The layout of the cemetery was designed by Edward Kemp.^[4]

The cemetery is adjacent to Stanley Park and close to the stadiums of Everton F.C. and Liverpool F.C.^[5] Notable individuals to have been buried or cremated there include Bill Shankly, the former manager of Liverpool FC was cremated there in 1981, former Everton captain Brian Labone, Boer War hero Donald Dickson Farmer (died 1936), and Labour MP Bessie Braddock (died 1970).^[6]

The cemetery has been placed on the Heritage at Risk Register because of the poor condition of the one (out of three) remaining chapels and the two catacombs.^[7] The cemetery itself was upgraded to Grade II* in 2009.

Notable internees

Images courtesy of The Friends Of Anfield Cemetery

Michael Holliday
Jem Mace

Notes

^ [1] Merseyside Graveyards
^ [2] Anfield Crematorium
^ "Anfield Cemetery". Parks & Gardens Data Services. http://www.parksandgardens.ac.uk/index.php?option=com_parksandgardens&task=site&id=99&Itemid=293. Retrieved 2008-04-24.
^ Pollard, Richard; Nikolaus Pevsner (2006). The Buildings of England: Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West. New Haven & London: Yale University Press. p. 394. ISBN 0-300-10910-5.
^ Liverpool: Explorer 275 map, Ordnance Survey.
^ [3]
^ Anfield Cemetery, Liverpool, English Heritage, http://risk.english-heritage.org.uk/2010.aspx?id=4907&rt=0&pn=1&st=a&co=Merseyside&ctype=exact&crit=, retrieved 12 July 2010

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