Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/London Necropolis Company

London Necropolis Company
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The result was: not scheduled (withdrawn by nominator) 15:13, 22 June 2013‎



The London Necropolis Company was a cemetery operator established by Act of Parliament in 1852 in reaction to the crisis caused by the closure of London's graveyards in 1851. The LNC intended to establish a single cemetery large enough to accommodate all of London's future burials in perpetuity. The company's founders recognised that the recently invented technology of the railway provided the ability to conduct burials a long distance from populated areas, mitigating concerns over public health risks from living near burial sites. Accordingly, the company bought 2,200 acre of mainly common land in Woking, Surrey, 25 mi from London, and converted 500 acre of this into Brookwood Cemetery. A dedicated railway line, the London Necropolis Railway, was also built linking the cemetery via the London and South Western Railway to their own station in the capital at Waterloo. When the cemetery opened in November 1854 it immediately became the world's largest, but by that time a number of other cemeteries had opened nearer to London or were in the process of opening, while the LNC was on the verge of bankruptcy. The company remained solvent by selling surplus parts of its land, but the sales were low as the land had been chosen in the first place for its remoteness. Although it was never as successful as planned, the LNC was very influential on both the funeral industry and the development of the area around Woking, and Brookwood Cemetery remains the largest cemetery in the United Kingdom. (Full article...)

I'm just nominating this on behalf of

Points-wise : 2 points as promoted in 2011, 1 point for a subject that is underrepresented and another 2 points for there not being an article on a topic like this in the last 6 months.

I know timing is not usually taken into account but could this be featured some time in July as that marks the final month of the last remains of the company before it was sold off in July 1973.

Another note is that this has been virtually promoted to TFA twice but been taken down without explanation. Simply south...... fighting ovens for just 7 years 20:50, 21 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Strongly oppose, for reasons of which Raul is well aware. (What does Redrose64 have to do with the price of eggs? He had nothing to do with this.) – iridescent  21:12, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Support - it seems a perfectly decent article, and I'm mystified as to why Iridescent is opposing it for unspecified reasons. Care to explain? Prioryman (talk) 21:15, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I too am mystified - I've not had much to do with this: two article edits, one talk page edit (which was itself a revert). -- Red rose64 (talk) 21:41, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I've had a look through a comment on another topic and it seems articles will not feature due to plagiarism and the usual issues. Which of those apply here or is it something else enturely? And if so what? Is there an FA page explaining this? Simply south...... fighting ovens for just 7 years 10:21, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I've been emailed by Iridescent and it seems that there are legal issues. -- Red rose64 (talk) 12:16, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment: History of mystery. I understand that it should not appear (ever). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:01, 21 June 2013 (UTC)