Ripley Cemetery is on Cemetery Lane in Ripley. There is limited parking and only pedestrian access is normally allowed.

The cemetery opened for burials in 1858, covering 5 acres. The cemetery has a new extension of 2.5 acres to the east, added in 1898.

The Amber Valley Borough Council manages and maintains the cemetery.

Mike SPENCER has provided a partial extract of burials found in the parish register. Your additions and corrections are welcomed.

• A company called Deceased on line - www.deceasedonline.com has got all the burial details for cemeteries. Note that these records are also available at Archives. Contributed by Brian BINNS, 29 July 2017.
   
• Photos and transcriptions of notable church monuments, provided by the Church Monuments Society. Added 28 Aug 2007.
   
• Sheffield General Cemetery database - 80,000+ entries, for which details may include place of birth, and in one instance I noticed of someone born in Derbyshire, a reference to maiden surname... Choose 'Resources' from the left menu, scroll down to 'burial details' and click on 'the first 6000 burials', from which you can either list them chronologically or use the brilliant, and very fast search engine..
   
• Roll of Honour - Derbyshire - War Memorial Selection.
   

• For details of the graves of the rich and famous, together with biographical information, look at the Find-a-Grave (England) page.

• The National Burial Index is hosted by findmypast (subscription site).
• List of Registered Cemeteries from Historic England.
• Gravestone photograph resource: an "index of the names that appear on photos taken by the Gravestone Photographic Resource Project team". This valuable project provides email copies of any of its collection of grave monument images free of charge on request.
• The Deceased Online website -"the first central database of statutory burial and cremation registers for the UK and Republic of Ireland" (subscription site).
• The Church Monuments Society provides photographs of the more interesting monuments (NOT monumental inscriptions) in a limited number of church yards.
• Index for Burials at Sea - from Ancestry and FindaGrave.