Southern Cemetery in Chorlton-Cum-Hardy, Greater Manchester

About

Get directions 212 Barlow Moor Road
Chorlton-Cum-Hardy, Metropolitan Borough of Manchester, Greater Manchester M21 7GL England

Coordinates: 53.42781, -2.26110
0161 227 3205
Cemetery ID:

Members have Contributed

About these numbers These percentages indicate the number of Find a Grave memorials that have a grave photo or GPS coordinates. We don't know the total number of burials in a cemetery, so we cannot calculate a percentage of those with memorials, photos or GPS coordinates.

Photos

See 9 more

16 open photo requests.

Southern Cemetery is a large municipal cemetery in Manchester, England 3 miles south of the city centre, at 212 Barlow Moor Road

in the Metropolitan Borough of Manchester, Greater Manchester M21 7GL England. It opened in 1879 and is the largest municipal cemetery in the United Kingdom, and the second largest in Europe. It was originally laid out on a 100-acre plot of land, but was expanded by 90 acres on the opposite side of Nell Lane in 1926.

Its cemetery buildings were designed by architect H. J. Paull and its layout is attributed to the city surveyor, James Gascoigne Lynde. Southern Cemetery is known for its historic interest and the mortuary chapels and other structures which are listed buildings. A war memorial commemorates Allied servicemen who died in the two world wars.

Southern Cemetery is a large municipal cemetery in Manchester, England 3 miles south of the city centre, at 212 Barlow Moor Road