The Cluster
The Friends of Horton Cemetery focus on the people buried at Horton Cemetery, but it is useful to include here some details about the cluster of hospitals in…
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The Cemetery
Explore Horton Estate Cemetery, its history, landscape, memorial and significance.
The Forgotten Cemetery
Horton Cemetery occupies a 5-acre site and is one of the largest abandoned hospital cemeteries in the UK and Europe, holding burials from 1899 to 1955. The Friends…
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The Headstones & Memorials
On the 6th July 1983, KIRKWOODS SOLICITORS of Epsom, acting for 'the freeholder' wrote to the Registrar General, informing them that pursuant to clause 10 of the Schedule…
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The History
Horton Cemetery contains burials of mental health and epileptic patients, soldiers, and asylum born children from 1899-1955. Find below a series of articles describing the various stages in…
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The Memorial
A former Epsom councillor has spoken of his disgust with the continuing neglect of Horton Hospital Cemetery. Alan Carlson, who for years was one of the town’s councillors…
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Why Should We Care?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vus3c64sAPw Respect for the dead The site currently contains the remains of thousands of patients from the Epsom cluster of asylums, currently disrespected and forgotten in unmarked graves.…
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