Wallasey (Rake Lane) Cemetery

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Opening times

Open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Services available

• Cremated remains graves
• Burials in existing graves
• Special garden for the burial of babies

Facilities

There is no chapel at Wallasey Cemetery.

Free parking is available within the cemetery. 

Visitors are able to park on the right-hand side of the main drive. To aid traffic flow within the cemetery visitors should park respectfully.

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We do not publish funeral times on the council website.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 Wallasey Cemetery

Wallasey (Rake Lane) Cemetery was opened in 1883. It contains a large number of monuments which are connected with maritime disasters of the early twentieth century. These including the Titanic, Lusitania and the Empress of Ireland. 

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has listed 256 war graves in Wallasey Cemetery, with individual locations. Find out more information, visit the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website.

The Anderson Vault: This remarkable granite building was constructed over the Anderson family vault many years ago.

The Chapel: The former chapel is now The Church of St Elisabeth the New Martyr and run and maintained by the Russian Orthodox Church.

Significant burials at the cemetery include:

• seven members of the Liverpool Pilot boat disaster of 1939
• victims of the Second World War blitz of Wallasey
• the Chief Officer of the Athelviking sunk by a German U-boat in 1945
• the Wallasey hermit Frederick Kruger
• John Thompson Francis, New Brighton Lighthouse Keeper 1902
• former Ship’s Captain of the Lusitania Captain William Turner
• Robert Leith Wireless Operator of the Lusitania
• memorial to George Charles Dodd perished in the Titanic disaster
• Richard Firman Dodd lost on HMS Laurentic 1917
• Captain Stanley Lord who was the captain of the SS Californian in 1912, the vessel that eventually aided the Titanic