Wisbech General Cemetery (also known as The General Cemetery, Wisbech, Leverington Road Cemetery)

A photograph taken in 1912 shows the cemetery intact with all its buildings standing, but in 1972 the grounds were overgrown with brambles and are now reached by a path beside a bungalow. The drive to the cemetery has been lost and a timber merchants yard replaces the approach to the Mortuary Chapel. In 1974 the Local Authority acquired the site and sought to clear the grounds and demolish the chapel.

Today only the Chapel walls stand, the roof has fallen in, and scaffolding stops the walls collapsing. All around the trees have grown to such size that they dominate the cemetery. Walker's print of 1849 depicted a simple classical chapel standing elegantly amongst mown lawns and small evergreen shrubs.

Gone are the neat lawns and now primroses carpet the ground. A cedar, variegated hollies, Irish and English yews are dwarfed by sycamores and the original layout is completely lost. The graves of Samuel Smith, local photographer, and Basil Lambert, a recent benefactor to the town, are only just discernable. In 2000 a local group began to take care of the cemetery and restore its features.