Open accessfree to visit at any reasonable time
Joseph Paxton, the designer behind the Crystal Palace, laid out this cemetery in 1847 as one of the earliest examples of the ‘garden cemetery’ movement — a burial ground meant to double as a public park. It holds a mass grave for victims of the 1940 Coventry Blitz among its Victorian monuments and arboretum. Free to walk in daily, run by the city council, with volunteer-led tours on offer from time to time. Coventry station is under a kilometre away.
