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The interior of the chapel The cremator at Woking Crematorium in the 1870s, before the chapel and buildings were constructed Woking Crematorium in the early 20th century. Woking Crematorium was founded in 1878, when a piece of land close to St John's Village was bought by Sir Henry Thompson. He was a surgeon and Physician to the Queen.
In 1888, 28 cremations took place at the venue. In 1891, Woking Crematorium added a chapel, pioneering the concept of a crematorium being a venue for funerals as well as cremation. The Cremation Society of Great Britain drew up the original forms of certification for cremation which were to be adopted as the basis for the first Cremation Act in ...
The cremation occurs in a cremator, which is located at a crematorium or crematory. In many countries, the crematorium is a venue for funerals as well as cremation. [14] A cremator is an industrial furnace that is able to generate temperatures of 871–982 °C (1,600–1,800 °F) to ensure the disintegration of the corpse. [41]
Canley Cemetery and Crematorium, Coventry; Gornal Wood Cemetery and Crematorium, Brierley Hill; Lodge Hill Crematorium, Birmingham; Powke Lane Crematorium, Rowley Regis; Robin Hood Cemetery and Crematorium, Solihull; Rycroft Crematorium, Walsall (defunct) Sandwell Valley Crematorium, West Bromwich; Stourbridge Crematorium; Streetly Crematorium ...
In 1849 Brookwood Cemetery was established near Woking to serve the population of London, connected to the capital by its own railway service. It soon developed into the largest burial ground in the world [citation needed]. Woking was also the site of Britain's first crematorium, which opened in 1878, and its first mosque, founded in 1889.
[103] [note 15] Although the LNC was hostile to the idea of cremation, [100] Woking Crematorium was the only operational crematorium in the country. [ 83 ] [ note 16 ] Since the Necropolis Railway provided the easiest way to transport bodies and mourners from London to the Woking area, transport to and from Woking Crematorium soon began to ...
Horsell Common is a 355-hectare (880-acre) open space in Horsell, near Woking in Surrey.It is owned and managed by the Horsell Common Preservation Society. [2] An area of 152 hectares (380 acres) is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest [1] [3] and part of the Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area.
The earliest evidence of human activity in the Woking area is from the Paleolithic. Flints dated to c. 13000 years before present (BP) have been found at Horsell, and knife blades from c. 12000 – c. 11000 BP have been discovered at Pyrford. [35] Two bell barrows and a disc barrow at Horsell are thought to date from the early Bronze Age.