Reading Old Cemetery: Beyond the Junction Arch

Buch | Softcover

2026
Two Rivers Press (Verlag)
978-1-915048-33-2 (ISBN)

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Reading Old Cemetery, with its famous Cemetery Junction arch, is a much-loved community site, valued for its natural beauty, rich biodiversity, and historical significance. This beautifully illustrated book shares insights into the history of the cemetery, its graves and monuments, its plants and wildlife, and much more.

If you travel across East Reading, you will most likely pass through Cemetery Junction, a bustling crossroads where Wokingham Road meets London Road. The name points to the significant site that gave the junction its name: the cemetery located between these two roads. Now commonly referred to as Reading Old Cemetery, it served the town for over a century and was mainly active between the years 1843 to 1959.

With over 250 war graves from both World Wars, four Grade II listed monuments (including the impressive Bath-stone gatehouse), and five trees registered in the Woodland Trust Ancient Tree Inventory, it has received formal recognition as a heritage asset by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, as a Grade II listed park and garden in the Register of the Historic Parks and Gardens by Historic England, and as a designated Local Wildlife Site by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.

Reading Old Cemetery is a much-loved community site, valued for its natural beauty, rich biodiversity, and historical significance. This beautifully illustrated book shares insights into the history of the cemetery, its graves and monuments, its plants and wildlife, and much more. We hope to encourage readers of all ages to connect more closely with this remarkable place.

Jenny Halstead studied fine art before training and following a career as a medical artist specialising in surgical and anatomical illustration, then moving into natural history and dinosaur books for children in collaboration with her late husband, a palaeontologist. A professional artist and art teacher working in a range of media (including oil, watercolour, acrylic, pastel and monoprint), she is a member of the Chelsea Arts Society and the Pastel Society, President of the Wokingham Art Society, and a founder member of the annual Whiteknights Studio Trail in Reading. Jenny’s previous publications include 'An Artist’s Year in the Harris Garden' (2013), 'Silchester: Life on the Dig' (2015) and 'Ancient and Modern: The Role of a Berkshire High Sheriff' (2018).

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.5.2026
Illustrationen	Jenny Halstead
Zusatzinfo	Fully illustrated in colour
Verlagsort	Reading
Sprache	englisch
Maße	200 x 200 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10	1-915048-33-8 / 1915048338
ISBN-13	978-1-915048-33-2 / 9781915048332
Zustand	Neuware