In Re Mill Road Cemetery Cambridge [2025] ECC Ely 2, judicial consideration was given to the respective responsibilities of a group of churches and the local authority when the maintenance of a churchyard, closed by Order in Council, was transferred under s.215 of the Local Government Act 1972. Mill Road Cemetery, Cambridge, was purchased by a deed of conveyance on 20 August 1847; the ground was consecrated, and the cemetery divided into separate plots to allow the churches who purchased the land to use as extensions of their individual churchyards; it was opened by the Bishop of Ely in 1848. Until its final closure, it served as the burial ground for 13 city parishes (now 10 through amalgamation) whose churchyards had become full. A chapel built by George Gilbert Scott was demolished in 1954.
Responsibilities after closure of churchyard
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