Bassaleg Road entrance lodge, St Woolos cemetery, Newport
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Bassaleg Road entrance lodge, St Woolos cemetery, Newport
Image: © Jaggery Taken: 14 Feb 2010
The Grade II listed lodge is adjacent to the Bassaleg Road entrance. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1709939 A blue plaque http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/601691 on the lodge commemorates the life of a Newport Victorian polymath James Flewitt Mullock. The lodge is now used as the cemetery offices, where burial records are kept and interments can be arranged. Most burials in Newport were in the churchyard of St Woolos cathedral, but by the middle of the 19th century this was totally inadequate for a town with a rapidly-growing population. 15 acres of land to the west of the cathedral, between Risca Road and Bassaleg Road, were obtained from the Tredegar Estate for the new St Woolos Cemetery, which opened in 1854. It is the UK's oldest municipal cemetery. Its current dimensions are about 600 metres by 400 metres, roughly 60 acres.
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