Kensal Green Cemetery was London's first "garden cemetery". It was initiated by barrister George Frederick Carden, who was inspired by a visit to Père-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris in 1821. It was consecrated in 1833.

It is the resting place of many famous engineers including Isambard Kingdom Brunel and his French engineer father, Sir James Nichol MacAdam  (AKA "the colossus of roads"), the great railway engineer Benjamin Piercy, Carl Wilhelm Siemens (German-British electrical engineer), John Rennie the younger (engineer of London Bridge, and much more) and many, many others. (For a list of famous people buried in this cemetery, please see https://www.kensalgreencemetery.com/famous-residents/)

Kensal Green Cemetery boasts over 150 Grade I, II* and II buildings and monuments on the National Heritage List for England. The magnificent Anglican Chapel is listed at Grade I and the Dissenters' Chapel at II*.

£12 per person (£10 over-65s). Expect an entertaining tour - rated four-and-a-half stars on TripAdvisor! 

ARRANGEMENTS: We will meet our tour guide, John Haines, at the Main Gate (east end of the cemetery) at 14:15 for a 14:30 start; I attach a map of the cemetery. Could you please pay cash to John when we get there.

The cemetery can be reached by public transport, options include:

• Nearest underground station is Kensal Green, on the Bakerloo line
• By bus line 52 from Victoria Bus Station. (2 per hour, c40 mins)
• Kensal Rise BR station is c10-15 mins walk from the main gate. Trains from Clapham Junction to Kensal Rise take about 25 mins.

Any queries/issues, please let me know. Any problems on the day, my mobile is 07751-468948.

.Interested? Email chairman@sihg.org.uk

https://www.kensalgreen.co.uk/

"Over 700 notable personalities are buried at Kensal Green Cemetery, from the children of George III to the servants of Queen Victoria. Engineers and artists, politicians and preachers, scientists and sportsmen, writers and actors, doctors and lawyers, financiers and philanthropists, explorers and wastrels, lie as neighbours in the Cemetery of All Souls."