Bishopwearmouth Cemetery pt2

What is now Bishopwearmouth Cemetery initially comprised of 34 acres of glebe land purchased from the Dean and Chapter of Durham at a cost of £275 per acre and was opened in May 1856 at a cost of £2,000.
The cemetery was laid out so that different denominations and communities in the surrounding parishes had places of interment allocated to them. In 1888 a further 18.5 acres were added. As at 2010, Bishopwearmouth Cemetery covered 80 acres.
Young victims of the 1883 Victoria Hall disaster are among those buried in the cemetery and a marble monument to the tragedy stood in the grounds until 2000 when it was restored and erected back at Mowbray Park with a new canopy
A section of the cemetery was also dedicated to war heroes, which contains 237 Commonwealth burials from the First World War and 156 from Second World War.