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Brompton Cemetery
Brompton Cemetery, opened 1840 as the West of London and Westminster Cemetery, is a Grade I Magnificent Seven garden cemetery in West London, designed by Benjamin Baud, state-owned since the 1850s, with over 205,000 burials including Emmeline Pankhurst.
Golders Green Crematorium
Golders Green Crematorium, Hoop Lane, Barnet: London's first crematorium, opened 1902 by Sir Henry Thompson, designed by Ernest George and Alfred Yeates with William Robinson gardens; Grade I park, Grade II buildings.
Highgate Cemetery
Highgate Cemetery (St James's Cemetery of Highgate), north London burial ground opened 1839 by the London Cemetery Company, third of the Magnificent Seven; West and East cemeteries, Karl Marx's grave, Grade I registered, over 170,000 buried.
Litten
The Litten is the medieval burial ground of Newbury's hospital of St Bartholomew in Berkshire, England, used from the 13th to the mid 16th century beside Litten Chapel.
Poets' Corner
Poets' Corner is the south transept of Westminster Abbey, London, where over 100 poets and writers are buried or memorialized, a tradition begun by Chaucer's 1400 burial and Spenser's 1599 interment nearby.
Royal Burial Ground, Frogmore
Royal Burial Ground, Frogmore: royal burial ground in Windsor Home Park, consecrated 1928, next to the Royal Mausoleum of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert; holds Edward VIII, Wallis Simpson, and other royals.