Brompton Cemetery

Brompton Cemetery is one of seven grand Victorian graveyards known as the Magnificent Seven, created in the nineteenth century to address the severe overcrowding of London parish churchyards. Unlike typical graveyards of the time, it was designed as a public landscape, intended to serve as a dignified retreat for the living as well as a final resting place for the dead. It is the only cemetery in London that is owned by the Crown, and it remains a working site for interments to this day. Throughout its grounds, over two hundred thousand people are laid to rest, ranging from renowned political figures to ordinary Londoners, all contained within a formal layout that mimics the grandeur of a public park.