London
Across London
Meller, H. (1981) London Cemeteries: An Illustrated Guide and Gazetteer, London: Scholar Press.
Meller, H. and Parsons, B. (2023) London Cemeteries: An Illustrated Guide and Gazetteer, Cheltenham: The History Press.
Parsons, B. (2001) The London Way of Death, Stroud: Sutton Publishing.
Barnet
Hendon Park Cemetery and Crematorium, NW7
Parsons, B. (n.d.) ‘Hendon Park Cemetery: Exploring the Third Venture of the Abney Park Cemetery Company’
Brent
Parsons, B. (2009) ‘The cemetery that never was: Kingsbury Lawn Cemetery’, Funeral Services Journal, 124, 4, 82-101.
Camden
Highgate Cemetery, N6
Barker, J. & Gay, F. (1984) Highgate Cemetery: Victorian Valhalla, London: John Murray.
Parsons, B. (n.d.) ‘Highgate Cemetery and the Undertakers’.
Croydon
Parsons, B. (n.d.) ‘Portrait of Mortality: Croydon 1937. Death and Disposal in a London Suburb’.
Hackney
Abney Park Cemetery, N16 (1840)
Joyce, P. (1984) A Guide to Abney Park Cemetery, London: Save Abney Park Publication.
The website of the Friends of Abney Park Cemetery includes some further historical information.
Hammersmith & Fulham
Margravine Cemetery (1869), W8
The Friends of Margravine Cemetery website includes some details of the cemetery’s history.
Kensington & Chelsea
Brompton Cemetery (1840), SW5
The website of the Friends of Brompton Cemetery includes reference to the early history of the site.
Kensal Green Cemetery (1833), W10
Coones, P. (1987) ‘Kensal Green: London’s first extra-mural necropolis’, Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society, 31, 48-76.
Coutts, J. (1992) ‘Kensal Green Cemetery’, History Today, 42, 62-3.
Stevens Curl, J. (2001) (ed.) Kensal Green Cemetery: The Origins and Development of the General Cemetery of All Souls, Kensal Green, London, 1824-2001, London: Phillimore.
A summary of early history is also available on the website of the Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery.
Tower Hamlets
Alderney Road Jewish Cemetery, E1
Susser, B. (1997) Alderney Road Jewish Cemetery, London E1 1697-1853, London: United Synagogue.
Westminster
Enon Chapel, Clement’s Lane, WC2A
Jupp, P. C. (1997) ‘Enon Chapel: no way for the dead’ in P. C. Jupp and G. Howarth (eds) The Changing Face of Death, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 90-104.
Portugal Street Burial Ground, WC2A
Pinfold, J. (1997) ‘The green ground’ in P. C. Jupp and G. Howarth (eds) The Changing Face of Death, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 76-88.