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Wrexham Cemetery

Wrexham, Italy

Wrexham Cemetery

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, laid out to the park-like designs of Yeaman Strachan, whilst its grade II-listed chapels and lodge were designed by William Turner.

The cemetery was conceived to serve as Wrexham's unofficial first park, with graves initially arranged by social class, a layout now confined to the Victorian section. It contains memorials dedicated to servicemen from the World Wars, including a dedicated Polish servicemen's memorial. It was also one of the first sites in Wrexham to permit the burial of nonconformists, as it was not directly associated with any 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 between 2016 and 2018, but new burial plots have since been restricted owing to limited space. A World War II mortuary, the only one of its kind in North Wales, was rediscovered on the site in 2019.

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