Hogsty End Burial Ground

Hogsty End Burial Ground in Woburn Sands is a former Quaker burial ground that hasn’t had a burial or internment since the 1950s when the local Quaker Meeting died out. With the growth of Milton Keynes, a new Quaker Meeting formed who would now like to make more use of the site and improve its currently neglected state.

The former Quaker building is currently let out to a Nursery and half of the site – including access – is the nursery play space, so a new Entrance along the Woburn Sands road is required. The site is in the Woburn Sands Conservation Area so the new entrance through the old sandstone wall fronting the site needs to be in keeping with the existing character.

The design brief included;

• Positions for the provision of benches for seating.

• Location of a path through the Burial Ground

• A pedestrian entrance via a new gate from Hardwick Road.

• Identification of specific areas for burials and interment and scattering of ashes

• Advice on the provision of new headstones for any burials and the interment and scattering of ashes

• Re-use within the Burial Ground of the seven existing headstones which are lying under the Yew Tree

• Inclusion of a stone feature with an inscription

Proposals should be such that there is ‘least disturbance’ to the Burial Ground. The design should be ‘low maintenance’.