Where is the oldest cemetery / graveyard in the UK?

Question

Where is the oldest cemetery / graveyard in the UK?

Answer 1

The 6th century St. Blanes Chapel on The Isle of Bute, west Scotland has graves of Vikings from the 7th Century written in Runes.

Answer 2

Bournemouth....I'm not saying it's in Bournemouth, I'm saying it IS Bournemouth.

Answer 3

I think it is Highgate Cemetery in North London.  There is the East and West side,  and one is older than the other and "houses"  some very famous people.  Karl Marx is buried there as well as Sir Ralph Richardson.

Answer 4

There are many old burial grounds--caves in Somerset as mentioned (gough's cave)-old stone age; neolithic cremation cemetaries such as that inside the bank/ditch at Stonehenge & neolithic chamber tombs which were for inhumations (ranging from Cornwall up to tip of Scotland; and then bronze age barrows (found pretty much every where.) The largest accumulation of barrows is around  Stonehenge-over 300.

Answer 5

my local.

Answer 6

I belive the oldest known 'constructed' as in buildings is Scotland on one of the islands, but of course the ancient barrows on Salisbury Plain are also close to the dawn of man

Answer 7

Stonehenge?

Answer 8

NO ITS NOT BOUNEMOUTH THATS GODS WAITING ROOM

Answer 9

A narrow cave in a gorge in Somerset has been identified as the oldest cemetery in Britain, used by generations of people from one area in the Mendips just after the last ice age, 10,000 years ago

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Answer 10

got to agree it is bournemouth followed by portsmouth

Answer 11

a standard cemetary not some roman site i would say would be highgate cemetary in north london. i've being there and god is it spooky!!!