LIVERPOOL BURIAL GROUNDS

As in most large town and cities Liverpool has a larger population of the dead than the living. Graveyards and cemeteries are scattered across the city and its hinterland. Many of these are no longer in use and have been entirely cleared of graves and/or converted in green spaces or, perhaps, car parks or city farms. Even in the large corporation cemeteries that do still exist the apparently 'empty' sections actually house the vast majority of the interments. Click on the headings below to see maps of these lost and hidden burial places.

Until 1361 the only place the inhabitants of Liverpool could bury their dead was in St Mary's Parish Church some miles away in Walton. In that year the town was granted permission to open its own burial ground, next to the chapel of St Nicholas. Until 1704 this was the only church, and therefore the only place of burial, within the town.

CORPORATION

CEMETERIES