Willesden Cemetery, Beaconsfield Road, Willesden, London NW10 2JE (United Synagogue) +44 20 8459 0394. Fax: +44 20 8451 0478. Pedestrian access-Glebe Road from junction of High Road Willesden and Pound Lane.
- Founded: 1873; 23 acres. New tombs are now confined to an area near the main gate.
- The United Synagogue Burial Society for additional information about tombstone maintenance, including cleaning at 020 8950 7767 and select option 2. Alternatively, you can This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Melvyn Hartog, Head of Burial, Tel: 020 8343 6283. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. [June 2011]
- JOWBR burial listings [August 2010]
- The July 1997 edition (Volume 5 Number 2) of Shemot (the magazine of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain) included an article entitled Willesden Cemetery History by Rosemary Wenzerul. Information provided by the articles included:
The cemetery was designed by the Jewish archiect Nathan Joseph.
Families tend to be buried together in family plots.
Among people buried at the cemetery:
- Chief Rabbi Nathan Adler;
- Chief Rabbi Israel Brodie;
- Rothschild family (in family plot);
- Sir Charles Clore;
- Lord Bearsted. - UPDATE: Willesden United Synagogue Cemetery Renovation [April 2016]
- The United Synagogue website has a "Find a Grave" search facility (at https://www.theus.org.uk/gravesearch) that enables one to search for a grave at its cemeteries, including this one. The search result will generally include the date of burial, the position of the grave and a photograph of the gravestone, if available. Source: David Shulman, Webmaster JCR-UK [June 2017]
- UPDATE: Willesden United Synagogue Cemetery Received Honour.(including photographs). Historic England has announced that the funerary buildings at United Synagogue's Willesden Cemetery are to be granted Grade II Listed, the first of the organisation's cemeteries to receive such recognition. [August 2016]
- UPDATE: Willesden Jewish Cemetery gets big Heritage Lottery grant [January 2018]
- UPDATE: Inheritance Day May 26, 2019 [May 2019]
- UPDATE: UK: Invisible City — a site-specific sound art installation at Willesden Jewish Cemetery, part of its innovative new House of Life heritage experience [December 2020}