The London Necropolis Company, also London Necropolis & National Mausoleum Company, was set up in 1850, and established by Act of Parliament in 1852. Its purpose was to create a large metropolitan cemetery, big enough to hold all of London's dead forever. Brookwood Cemetery was set up at Brookwood near Woking, and by 1854 it was the largest cemetery in the world. 1850 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... In Westminster System parliaments, an Act of Parliament is a part of the law passed by the Parliament. ... The Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster which contains Big Ben London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ... Brookwood Cemetery (aka the London Necropolis) was set up by the London Necropolis Company in 1852 to house Londons dead, since the capital was finding it difficult to locate the increasing population, both of living and dead. ... Brookwood can refer to: Brookwood, Alabama, a place in the US Brookwood Cemetery, a place in England This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Woking is a large town in England, in the west of Surrey. ...
The London Necropolis Company was dissolved around 1975, and the cemetery has been administered privately since.
LNC bought 2,000 acres of Woking Common land from Lord Onslow, and set aside 500 acres of that for the cemetery’s initial stage.
The Bishop of London’s worries were addressed by ensuring that every Necropolis train would offer six distinct categories of accommodation, and that dead passengers would be given just as wide a choice as their live companions.
LNC justified the higher fares it charged for First Class coffin accommodation by pointing to the higher degree of decoration provided on its First Class coffin cell doors and the greater degree of care which First Class coffins were given at both ends of the journey (see Dear departed, opposite).
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