The
London Necropolis Company, also
London Necropolis & National Mausoleum Company, was set up in
1850, and established by
Act of Parliament in 1852. Its purpose was to create a large metropolitan cemetery, big enough to hold all of
London's dead forever.
Brookwood Cemetery was set up at
Brookwood[?] near
Woking , and by 1854 it was the largest cemetery in the world.
The London Necropolis Company was dissolved around 1975, and the cemetery has been administered privately since.