Poundbury Cemetery is on the western outskirts of Dorchester on land owned by the Duchy of Cornwall of which the Prince of Wales is the present beneficiary.

It will be the third cemetery in Dorchester, all on land provided by the Duchy. The others (Weymouth Avenue and Fordington) were created in the mid-19th century and are now virtually full.

It has taken us a long time to get an agreement on a site and design for a cemetery but we have finally got there.

The cemetery is 4.7acres in area and will include an area for children's burials as well as the environmentally friendly and moslem areas. There is an opportunity for ashes to be placed in a pit beneath the focal building in the cemetery and there are also small plots for the burial of caskets of ashes.

We have designed a special kerbstone which has recesses into which cast bronze plaques can be placed as memorials, particularly to people whose ashes have been placed in the pit.

Dennis Holmes
Dorchester Joint Burial Committee

See also: A Prince's Dream