Friends of Hyde Park Cemetery

Welcome to the website of the Friends of Hyde Park Cemetery (FoHPC), Doncaster.

FoHPC seeks to promote and protect the cemetery as a place of historic interest, as well as one of natural beauty. Many FoHPC members have family buried here, but for others it is the tranquility of the cemetery that they find appealing.

To find out about recent activities, please visit the News page and to check out what's coming up see our Events page. If you are trying to find details of a burial that took place in Hyde Park Cemetery, please see our Grave Finder Service.

Why Hyde Park Cemetery?

By the mid-19th century many churchyards were proving insufficient for England's growing urban population. In 1853, an Act of Parliament allowed local authorities to provide new, non-denominational, cemeteries.

Opened in 1856, Hyde Park Cemetery is the oldest municipal graveyard in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, and one of the first to open in the UK outside of London.

For more information on English cemeteries, and Hyde Park in particular, see the History page.

If you're not sure where Hyde Park Cemetery is located, click here to view a map.

To see a plan showing the various sections (A to Yx) of the cemetery, click here.