A Cambridge Necropolis

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The Ascension Burial Ground is one of Cambridge’s best kept secrets. There’s more IQ lying in this acre than most others. Explore the history of the University amid the academics’ gravestones.

This is the burial place of one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein, of three Nobel prizewinners (who split the atom, identified vitamins, and decoded haemoglobin), of the discoverer of the planet Neptune, of founding figures in economics and anthropology, of the astrophysicist who demonstrated Einstein’s theory, of a clutch of Darwins, and of women pioneers in higher education: in all, ninety people who have entries in Britain’s Dictionary of National Biography.

The Ascension is also a veritable ‘alphabet museum’ of exquisite lettering artistry.

This tour is offered kindly by the Friends of the Ascension Burial Ground and will be led by Professor Mark Goldie, Emeritus Professor of History and a Fellow of Churchill College.

The Friends of the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground was created in 2010 to protect and enhance the Burial Ground ‘for the public benefit as a place of remembrance, spirituality, history, and nature’. Donations are welcome. Membership is £10 p.a. (£15 household, £5 concessions). Contact: Professor James Clackson, jptc1@cam.ac.uk.