Guided Walks - Booking Essential

The Soc
iety operates the only official Company-approved guided walks around the cemetery, with all donations going towards restorations.

The Society was founded in 1992, and our volunteer guides are very knowledgeable and have many years' experience of the cemetery and its history.

Please contact us if you would like to join our happy band.


For all Guided Tour enquires please contact  walks@tbcs.org.uk

Please do not contact  the Brookwood Cemetery office

Please Note Walk Starting Times.
March - September..................2.00pm
October - November......1.00pm

Sunday August 3rd - 2pm

 

South Side Notables around PLOTS 82 & 83 - 2pm

Led by Barry Devonshire

Barry Devonshire leads a walk to a specific area of the cemetery to reveal the very different lives and stories of those who lie there


Railway walk - 2pm

Led by John Clarke

John Clarke guides his extremely popular walk exploring the route of the former railway in both the North and South parts of the cemetery.


Notables and Notorius - 2pm

Led by Diana Laffin

This walk will tour round the North Cemetery pausing at the graves of the brave, the bold and the disreputable including baby killers, atheists and adulterers.


Sunday September 7th - 2pm


Railway walk - 2pm

Led by John Clarke

Another chance to join John Clarke on his extremely popular walk exploring the route of the former railway in both the North and South parts of the cemetery.


Tree Walk -2pm

Led by Mike Bailey

New to the Society is Malcolm who will share his knowledge of the trees in Brookwood Cemetery


Pot Pouri - 2pm

Led by Alison Vince

Another mix of Notables with no definitive connection just interesting lives to hear about


Sunday October 5th - 1pm


Pre-Raphaelite Artists' Connections - 1pm

Led by Jenny Mukerji You have heard about the Arists now hear about the connections to them.


Sporting Lives - 1pm

Led by Jon Leech

Cricket, Racing Driving, Ice skating, Rowing, Rugby and Football, the Cemetery has notables in these fields and a selection will be chosen to make the tour.


The Written Word ~ Authors - 1pm

Led by Kim Lowe

Some still have books ready to be bought and read, for a little light reading when you go to bed.

 


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Bookings Essential

Average group size 15 to 20 people depending on bookings.
Booking may be done by email ~ walks@tbcs.org.uk or mobile 07714 289375.
Please tell us which walk you would like to book


A donation of £7.50 per person will secure a place.

This includes refreshments afterwards at the Lodge.
Once received , we will confirm your place on the walk.


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We meet at the Society Lodge adjacent to the Cemetery Office.



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There is a separate entrance to the Glades, with its own lay-by, off Cemetery Pales.

Parking is available inside the entrance.

Refreshments and toilet facilities are available at the Society Lodge

We ask for a donation when booking
 
All the money raised from the donations goes towards Society restoration projects.

Brookwood Cemetery is near Woking, Surrey. It is adjacent to the A322 Guildford - Bagshot Road (Junction 3 off the M3). The entrance to the Cemetery is off Cemetery Pales, a road joining the A322 near the Brookwood cross-roads. See our location map. The postcode is GU24 0BL.

If you want to arrange your own walk through the cemetery you must get permission from Brookwood Cemetery to do so and there may be fee

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