Layton Cemetery
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Layton Cemetery is a graveyard
Graveyard
A graveyard is any place set aside for long-term burial of the dead, with or without monuments such as headstones...

 located at Talbot Road in Blackpool
Blackpool
Blackpool is a borough, seaside town, and unitary authority area of Lancashire, in North West England. It is situated along England's west coast by the Irish Sea, between the Ribble and Wyre estuaries, northwest of Preston, north of Liverpool, and northwest of Manchester...

, Lancashire
Lancashire
Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Although Lancaster is still considered to be the county town, Lancashire County Council is based in Preston...

 in England. It was opened in 1873 when Blackpool parish church was replete with burying. The site encompasses 30 acres (121,405.8 m²), having being regularly expanded during its history. It is administered by Blackpool Council. A number of memorials in the cemetery are executed in Portland stone
Portland stone
Portland stone is a limestone from the Tithonian stage of the Jurassic period quarried on the Isle of Portland, Dorset. The quarries consist of beds of white-grey limestone separated by chert beds. It has been used extensively as a building stone throughout the British Isles, notably in major...

.

The cemetery was designed and laid out by Garlick, Park and Sykes, architects of Preston. Originally there were three mortuary chapels, Anglican, Catholic and Non-Conformist but only the Anglican remains. There was a lodge at the entrance which provided a residence and office for the custodian. The original part of the cemetery was surrounded a stone wall, topped with iron railings with a double iron gate at the entrance. These structures are extant. A World War I
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

 memorial is centrally situated.

In the 1930s, the cemetery was rapidly nearing capacity and therefore a new cemetery and crematorium were opened, known as Carleton Crematorium and Cemetery. Layton Cemetery is now replete but interments are permitted in existing graves.

Notable interments

  • Dick Barlow
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     England test cricketer
  • Gerald Irving Richardson
    Gerald Irving Richardson
    Superintendent Gerald 'Gerry' Irving Richardson, GC, was a police officer in the Lancashire Constabulary and the highest-ranking officer to be murdered in the line of duty in Great Britain...

     Superintendent of Lancashire Constabulary. Posthumously awarded the George Cross.
  • George Washington Williams
    George Washington Williams
    George Washington Williams was an American Civil War veteran, minister, politician and historian. Shortly before his death he travelled to King Leopold II's Congo Free State and his open letter to Leopold about the suffering of the region's inhabitants at the hands of Leopold's agents, helped to...

     Afro-American historian
  • Samuel Laycock
    Samuel Laycock
    Samuel Laycock was a dialect poet who recorded in verse the vernacular of the Lancashire cotton workers. He was born on 17 January 1826 at Intake Head, Pule Hill, Marsden, West Yorkshire, the son of John Laycock, a hand-loom weaver. He had no formal education apart from Sunday school and a few...

     dialect poet
  • Edwin Hughes
    Edwin Hughes
    Troop Sergeant Major Edwin Hughes, known as 'Balaclava Ned', was the last survivor of the famous Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War of 1854–56. He was born in Wrexham, Wales on 12 December 1830, and died in Blackpool on 18 May 1927, aged 96...

     last survivor of the Charge of the Light Brigade
    Charge of the Light Brigade
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  • Alfred Tysoe
    Alfred Tysoe
    Alfred Ernest Tysoe was a British athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1900 Olympic Games....

     British athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1900 Olympic Games.
  • Spencer Timothy Hall
    Spencer Timothy Hall
    Spencer Timothy Hall , was an English writer and mesmerist. He was born in a cottage near Sutton in Ashfield in Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, the son of Samuel Hall, a Quaker cobbler and Eleanor Spencer, a dairymaid...

     Writer and mesmerist.
  • Ada Boswell
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    Queen of the Gypsies

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