Kensal Green Cemetery was London's first "garden cemetery". It was initiated by barrister George Frederick Carden, who was inspired by a visit to Père-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris in 1821. It was consecrated in 1833.

It is the resting place of many famous engineers including Isambard Kingdom Brunel and his French engineer father, Sir James Nichol MacAdam  (AKA "the colossus of roads"), the great railway engineer Benjamin Piercy, Carl Wilhelm Siemens (German-British electrical engineer), John Rennie the younger (engineer of London Bridge, and much more) and many, many others. (For a list of famous people buried in this cemetery, please see https://www.kensalgreencemetery.com/famous-residents/)

Kensal Green Cemetery boasts over 150 Grade I, II* and II buildings and monuments on the National Heritage List for England. The magnificent Anglican Chapel is listed at Grade I and the Dissenters' Chapel at II*.

£12 per person. Expect an entertaining tour - rated four-and-a-half stars on TripAdvisor! We may meet for lunch nearby beforehand.

Interested? Email meetings@sihg.org.uk

https://www.kensalgreen.co.uk/

"Over 700 notable personalities are buried at Kensal Green Cemetery, from the children of George III to the servants of Queen Victoria. Engineers and artists, politicians and preachers, scientists and sportsmen, writers and actors, doctors and lawyers, financiers and philanthropists, explorers and wastrels, lie as neighbours in the Cemetery of All Souls."