Reading Old Cemetery: Beyond the Junction Arch

If you travel across East Reading, you will most likely pass through Cemetery Junction, a bustling crossroads where Wokingham Road meets London Road.The name points to the significant site that gave the junction its name: the cemetery located between these two roads.Now commonly referred to as Reading Old Cemetery, it served the town for over a century and was mainly active between the years 1843 to 1959. With over 250 war graves from both World Wars, four Grade II listed monuments (including the impressive Bath-stone gatehouse), and five trees registered in the Woodland Trust Ancient Tree Inventory, it has received formal recognition as a heritage asset by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, as a Grade II listed park and garden in the Register of the Historic Parks and Gardens by Historic England, and as a designated Local Wildlife Site by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust. Reading Old Cemetery is a much-loved community site, valued for its natural beauty