Situated at the top of a short, steep lane, Cowgate Hill, a quarter-mile or so from the parish church, the New Burial Ground was completed with a mortuary chapel and a lodge for the sexton. occupant of the lodge before closure of the cemetery in the 1950s, William Petchey, had been born there, to his father and grandfather. The latter is recorded on his iron headstone as having buried over four thousand people (more than half the total entered in the Burial Register) between 1857 and 1881. In 2001 the Dover Society became involved with the maintenance the cemetery and has gradually taken over the whole area direction of White Cliffs Countryside Project