Shady Corner - Woodbury Park Cemetery.

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Brief History of Woodbury Park Cemetery, Tunbridge Wells.

The lack of a cemetery in Tunbridge Wells was of major concern in 1824, when a meeting of townsfolk was held to consider the building of Trinity Church.

Until Trinity Church opened in 1829, most burials of Tunbridge Wells inhabitants had to take place some miles away at Tonbridge, Speldhurst or Frant.

However, within twenty years Trinity Churchyard was itself full and in 1849, Trinity Cemetery (now called Woodbury Park Cemetery) was laid out on what was then the edge of the town.

By the 1870's the three acres of the cemetery were virtually full. Thereafter the only interments allowed were of relatives in existing graves. The last interment was in 1934