# Mount Cemetery

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**Mount Cemetery**, also known as **Guildford Cemetery**, is a [cemetery](/source/Cemetery) in [Guildford](/source/Guildford), [Surrey](/source/Surrey), [England](/source/England). It is the location of [Booker's Tower](/source/Booker's_Tower).

Guildford Cemetery is surrounded by low-density houses with gardens and a covered reservoir beyond the east corner, immediately south of the successive residential streets of the Guildford Park and Farnham Road neighbourhoods west of Guildford, on the 'Guildown' or 'Mount' section of the western [North Downs](/source/North_Downs) here forming the widest section of the [Hog's Back](/source/Hog's_Back).

Guildford Cemetery has in part views overlooking the town centre. Plots have been laid out to the maximum number its civic authority owner permits under rules set out in the 2000s. Burials are permitted in plots reserved or within an existing family grave to the deceased subject to a maximum of four related burials per plot.[1]

The cemetery contains the war graves of 33 Commonwealth service personnel, 14 from the [First World War](/source/First_World_War) and 19 from the [Second World War](/source/Second_World_War).[2]

## Notable interred

- [Edward Carpenter](/source/Edward_Carpenter), the gay socialist poet and activist, and partner of [George Merrill.](/source/George_Merrill_(gay_activist))
- [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson](/source/Lewis_Carroll) ("Lewis Carroll"), the author of *[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland](/source/Alice's_Adventures_in_Wonderland)*.
- [Edwin Heron Dodgson](/source/Edwin_Dodgson), the younger brother of C. L. Dodgson, a missionary
- Five of Charles and Edwin Dodgson's seven sisters are also buried here
- [Sir Alfred Gaselee](/source/Alfred_Gaselee), army general
- [Sir John Rose, 1st Baronet](/source/Sir_John_Rose,_1st_Baronet), Canadian Finance Minister

## Publications

In 2005 [Guildford Museum](/source/Guildford_Museum) published *... and the Lord Taketh Away*, an illustrated guide to the cemetery.[3]

## Notes and references

1. [Guildford Borough Cemeteries website](http://www.guildford.gov.uk/GuildfordWeb/Community/BirthDeathMarriage/Cemeteries/) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20100313175922/http://www.guildford.gov.uk/GuildfordWeb/Community/BirthDeathMarriage/Cemeteries/) 2010-03-13 at the Wayback Machine

1. [\[1\]](http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/44654/GUILDFORD%20CEMETERY) CWGC Cemetery record, breakdown from casualty record.

1. *... and the Lord Taketh Away*, by Roger Nicholas. ISBN 0-9543753-2-7

## External links

- [Folkes Photography images at Mount Cemetery](https://web.archive.org/web/20120301223104/http://www.folkesphotography.co.uk/gallery.php?group=historic_guildford&topic=mount_cemetery)

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