Layton Cemetery

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Layton Cemetery, Blackpool is a graveyard located at Talbot Road, Blackpool, FY3 7BB. It was opened in 1873 when Blackpool parish church was replete with burying. The site encompasses 30 acres, having being regularly expanded during its history. The site is administered by Blackpool Borough Council. It contains many fine memorials, many of which are executed in Portland Stone.

[edit] Notable interments

Dick Barlow England test cricketer
Gerald Irving Richardson Superintendant of Lancashire Constabulary. Posthumously awarded the George Cross.
George Washington Williams Afro American Historian
Samuel Laycock dialect poet
Edwin Hughes last survivor of the Charge of the Light Brigade
Alfred Tysoe British athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1900 Olympic Games.