The City of London Cemetery and Crematorium was founded in 1854 on land purchased from the2nd Duke of Wellington – 200 acres total. William Haywood laid out the cemetery in 1855 and the first burial occurred on 24 June 1856. It is owned and operated by the City of London Corporation. It has been designated Grade I on the Historical England Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. The cemetery has been used continuously since its opening and many of the London churches which have been demolished have had their dead reinterred in the City of London Cemetery. Today it is the third largest municipal facility in the United Kingdom. The cemetery is located on the northeast side of Aldersbrook Road in Manor Park in the London Borough of Newham near Epping. There are two entrances: the main gate near the junction of Aldersbrook Road and Forest Drive and the south gate which is a small gate at the junction of Aldersbrook Road and Rabbit Road.
The Union of Benefices Act 1860 allowed for the demolition of many unused City churches, and for the reinterment of the remains in the City of London Cemetery. The cemetery also contains inhumations from London churches destroyed during the Blitz.
St Benet Gracechurch (1865)
All Hallows Staining (1870)
St Andrew and St Sepulchre (1871)
St Mary Somerset (1871)
Holy Trinity the Less (1872)
St Mildred, Poultry (1872)
St James Duke's Place (1874)
St Martin Outwich (1874)
St Antholin, Watling Street (1875)
All Hallows Bread Street (1878)
St Dionis Backchurch (1878)
St Matthew Friday Street (1884)
St Olave (1887)
St Helen's Bishopsgate (1892)
St Mary Magdalen Old Fish Street (1893)
St Mary Woolnoth (between 1897–1900), the contents of the crypt were moved here
St Peter le Poer (1907)
St Alphage London Wall (1924)
St Katherine Coleman (1925)
All Hallows Lombard Street (1939)
Holy Trinity, Minories (1940)
St Alban, Wood Street (1940)
St Mary Aldermanbury (1940)
St Botolph's Aldgate, the remains of around 2,500 persons were moved here when the north part of the churchyard was cleared in 1965
St Michael Queenhithe, demolished in 1876, reinterment in 1969
St Michael, Cornhill
Some churches were destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 and never rebuilt due to the Rebuilding Act. Many were joined with other parishes. The remains in their churchyards were either left, moved to a new location or to this cemetery (sometimes at a later date). Among these were:
St Dionis Backchurch
St John the Evangelist, Watling Street, the churchyard was cleared in 1954
St John Zachary
St Leonard, Eastcheap, the churchyard on Fish Street Hill was cleared in 1882
St Martin Pomary
St Martin Vintry
St Mary Colechurch
St Mary Woolchurch Haw, the churchyard was cleared in 1892
St Peter, Paul's Wharf