Ascension Parish Burial Ground

Ascension Parish Burial Ground is a cemetery in Cambridge, United Kingdom. Wikidata records 96 notable interments here, including Ludwig Wittgenstein, John Cockcroft, Arthur Eddington.

At a glance

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Opening hours

• Monday: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
• Tuesday: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
• Wednesday: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
• Thursday: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
• Friday: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
• Saturday: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
• Sunday: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Source: Google Places. Last checked 2026-07-23. Hours can change, confirm with the cemetery before visiting.

Notable interments

96 notable figures are documented here in Wikidata, each with a Wikipedia article and recorded burial place. The 25 most widely covered are listed below. Browse all 96, or take the JSON record.

Of Ascension Parish Burial Ground's 96 documented notable interments, recorded occupations include university teacher (23%), mathematician (16%), historian (9%), physicist (6%), writer (6%).

• Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), logician, epistemologist, philosopher of language
• John Cockcroft (1897–1967), nuclear physicist, university teacher, physicist
• Arthur Eddington (1882–1944), philosopher, astrophysicist, physicist
• John Couch Adams (1819–1892), university teacher, mathematician, astronomer
• Frederick Hopkins (1861–1947), biochemist, university teacher, chemist
• James George Frazer (1854–1941), mythographer, linguist, ethnographer
• Max Perutz (1914–2002), molecular biologist, biophysicist, crystallographer
• G. E. Moore (1873–1958), philosopher, university teacher
• G. E. M. Anscombe (1919–2001), philosopher of language, philosopher, university teacher
• Frank P. Ramsey (1903–1930), philosopher, economist, mathematician
• Mark Oliphant (1901–2000), nuclear physicist, governor, physicist
• Alfred Newton (1829–1907), evolutionary biologist, botanical collector, ornithologist
• Horace Lamb (1849–1934), university teacher, physicist, mathematician
• Alfred Ewing (1855–1935), civil engineer, mechanical engineer, university teacher
• A. C. Benson (1862–1925), diarist, academic, poet
• Walter William Skeat (1835–1912), literary scholar, etymologist, scholar of English
• Charlotte Scott (1858–1931), university teacher, mathematician
• Robert Stawell Ball (1840–1913), university teacher, mathematician, writer
• W. W. Rouse Ball (1850–1925), historian of mathematics, magician, university teacher
• H. F. Baker (1866–1956), university teacher, mathematician, astronomer
• William Halse Rivers Rivers (1864–1922), anthropologist, ethnologist, neurologist
• Roberto Gerhard (1896–1970), composer
• Peter Geach (1916–2013), philosophy historian, philosopher, university teacher
• R. A. Stewart Macalister (1870–1950), prehistorian, anthropologist, archaeologist
• Frederick Blackman (1866–1947), botanist

Common questions

Where is Ascension Parish Burial Ground?

Ascension Parish Burial Ground is in Cambridge, United Kingdom, at coordinates 52.2176, 0.1001.

Who is buried at Ascension Parish Burial Ground?

Wikidata documents 96 notable interments at Ascension Parish Burial Ground, including Ludwig Wittgenstein, John Cockcroft, Arthur Eddington, John Couch Adams, Frederick Hopkins.

Records and sources

• Wikidata: Q4803837 (CC0, the source for the facts on this page)
• Wikipedia article
• Burial records on Find a Grave (external, not affiliated)

Related terms

Notable intermentInterment

Resting Places. "Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge, United Kingdom." restingplaces.site. Wikidata source record: Q4803837. https://restingplaces.site/cemeteries/ascension-parish-burial-ground/

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