Lansdown Cemetery is located by Beckford Tower on Lansdown. It opened in 1848, its first occupant being William Beckford who had been buried in Bath Abbey Cemetery in 1844 but, at the instigation of one of his daughters, Lady Hamilton, the tomb was transported to the newly-created Lansdown Cemetery. She had bought back the land after it had been proposed to develop it into pleasure gardens and gifted to the parish of Walcot. Its importance to the parish diminished when it developed Locksbrook Cemetery (1864). The cemetery has over 5,000 burials and a large number of memorials. Bath Record Office’s Bath Burial Index (https://www.batharchives.co.uk/burial-index) has online documentation by Phil Bendall for the graveyard including images of the memorials, transcriptions of inscriptions and maps.