Old Stowmarket Cemetery in Stowmarket, Suffolk

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Get directions Bury Road
Stowmarket, Mid Suffolk District, Suffolk England

Coordinates: 52.19480, 0.99235
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The first burial took place in Aug 1855.
The Stowmarket Old Cemetery was closed to new burials in 1901 however burials still happened in previous bought plots and existing graves.
There is two small Chapels on the site which were used to hold funerals of those buried in the Cemetery.
The Cemetery is the final resting place of a number of the victims of the Gun Cotton Explosion, in 2013 a plaque was installed as a memorial to the victims.
The Cemetery also contains an ashes plot which is still in use today