Woking may be a medium-sized town but, in Brookwood, it has the UK’s largest cemetery.
Founded in 1852, Brookwood Cemetery has also been dubbed London Necropolis and is the resting place for many of the country’s great and good. Indeed, a number of London graveyards were relocated here during massive 19th-century engineering projects, such as the London Underground and Charing Cross Station.
Within over 500 acres, you can find the graves of 10th-century King Edward the Martyr, American artist John Singer Sargent and Titanic survivor Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon. Grand classical mausoleums sit alongside humble headstones. The field of stark white crosses that make up the gravesite for the American soldiers of World War I makes for a moving experience.