Facilities
No new graves are available at Flaybrick Memorial Gardens.
Vehicle access with free parking. Visitors are able to park on the left-hand side of the main drive. To aid traffic flow within the cemetery visitors should park respectfully.
There is no memorial chapel.
Contact details
Telephone: 0151 666 3001
Monday to Friday, 10am to 12pm and 2pm to 4pm
Closed on Bank Holidays
Email: landicancemetery@wirral.gov.uk
We may take up to 15 working days to respond to emails.
We do not publish funeral times on the council website.
History of Flaybrick cemetery
Flaybrick Memorial Gardens, formally Flaybrick Cemetery, was opened on 30th May 1864 and is a designated conservation area covering 26 acres.
Officially named Birkenhead Cemetery and covering 16.5 acres, the site was designed by Edward Kemp who was the Superintendent of Birkenhead Park and a renowned landscape gardener and contained adjoining Church of England and Non-Conformist Chapels together with a Catholic chapel at the lower, north end of the site.
The cemetery was renamed Flaybrick Cemetery in 1956 and eventually closed for new burials in 1975.
As a renowned arboretum, containing around 80 species of trees, the cemetery was redesignated as a Memorial Garden in 1996 and together with being listed as grade 2* in the English Heritage register of Parks and Gardens of Specific Historic Interest, in 2003 gained accreditation as a Significant Cemetery in Europe.
Volunteering
The Friends of Flaybrick is a group of volunteers that works in partnership with the council to improve the Gardens.
Location
Tollemache Road
Birkenhead
CH41 0DG
United Kingdom
Opening times
Open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Getting to Flaybrick memorial gardens
By train
The nearest train station, Birkenhead North, is a 15-minute walk away.
By bus
Bus number 38 is main bus route that stops one minute walk from Flaybrick Memorial Gardens.