South Stoneham Cemetery in Swaythling, Hampshire

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Get directions Stoneham Cemetery Road, Swaythling district
Swaythling, Southampton Unitary Authority, Hampshire SO18 2NF England

Coordinates: 50.94010, -1.36603
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Located in the Swaythling district of Southampton and operated by the Southampton City Council, the first burial took place on 4 Feb 1905. A crematorium was opened on this site in 1932 but by the 1960s was becoming inadequate and obsolete. As a result, Southampton City Council opened a new crematorium on Bassett Green Road in October 1973.

The original South Stoneham Crematorium was closed in 1973 and the buildings were demolished during the construction of a new motorway. The original Garden of Rest was relocated on a strip of allotment land adjacent to the South Stoneham Cemetery. The complete layer of topsoil containing the cremated remains in the old Garden of Rest was removed and transferred to the new site by hand, with the topsoil being placed in the new garden in the same relative position.