Undercliffe Cemetery, opened in 1854, sits on a high ridge above east Bradford and contains some of the most ostentatious Victorian funerary monuments in northern England. The wool barons commissioned what amounted to family palaces in granite, sandstone and marble: Egyptian obelisks, Gothic temples, Greek revival mausolea — a textbook of the period's funerary taste, set across 26 hectares of overgrown sloping ground.
The Friends of Undercliffe Cemetery run free guided walks on summer weekends and have produced excellent self-guided trail leaflets, available at the entrance lodge. The view back over Bradford from the cemetery's top edge is one of the best in the city. About a mile and a half east of the centre — Bradford bus 640 stops at the gate.