Cemetery facilities
Cambridge City Council maintains three cemeteries:
Open Dates and Times
| Histon Road, Cambridge | opened 1843 |
| Huntingdon Road, Cambridge (adjacent to the Crematorium) | opened 2003 |
| Newmarket Road, Cambridge | opened 1901 |
| Newmarket Road | |
| 1st November — 31st March | 0900 to 1600 hours* |
| 1st April — 31st October | 0900 to 1800 hours* |
| * Vehicle access | |
| Unlimited pedestrian access everyday including Sundays and Bank Holidays | |
Histon Road and Huntingdon Road cemeteries are open sites and offer unlimited access
Burials may be arranged to take place Monday to Friday (except public holidays) between 0900 hours and 1430 hours (winter) and 1500 hours (summer)
There are no new graves available at Histon Road although it is used for burial in those plots where exclusive rights of burial still exist and for the interment of cremated remains in existing family graves. (All the other cemeteries have land available for burials well into the twenty-first century).
It is important to realise that the bereaved have responsibilities for ensuring that they comply with the rules and regulations which have been formulated for the benefit of all who have to visit the cemeteries and that memorials they cause to be erected are kept safe, clean and tidy.
Histon Road Cemetery
Located in the north west part of the city of Cambridge, bounded to the west by Histon Road and to the east French's Road. The main entrance to the cemetery is from Histon Road.
The registers of the cemetery are now deposited at Cambridgeshire Archives: find more information on the county council website.
In the centre of the boundary stands a large two storey Elizabethan Tudor style lodge (listed grade II) built of grey gault brick with red diapering and stone dressings under a roof of octagonal slates.
The Lodge was designed by E B Lamb, erected in 1843, and is flanked by two pairs old cast iron gates hung on brick and stone piers (all listed grade II.) Each of the north ones having a slate face inscribed with the cemetery regulations.
From the gates, the drives circle either side of the lodge and rejoin on the other side to run west along a wide central drive to the site of the former gothic chapel which stood at the centre of the cemetery. The Chapel was demolished in the 1950s, since when the main building on the site has been the lodge. The drive continues to the corner of French's Road and Victoria Road where there is a gate, which allows pedestrian access only.
