The London Necropolis Company, also London Necropolis & National Mausoleum Company, was set up in 1850, and established by Act of Parliament in 1852. Its purpose was to create a large metropolitan cemetery, big enough to hold all of London's dead forever. Brookwood Cemetery was set up at Brookwood near Woking , and by 1854 it was the largest cemetery in the world.
The London Necropolis Company was dissolved around 1975, and the cemetery has been administered privately since.
