 An area of was set aside in the act of 1811 as Fuel Land, to be rented out to local farmers with the money used as a winter dole of fuel to the “deserving poor”(12).The enclosed common with its excellent road connection to London was attractive to agencies that required large expanses of land.Later landowners were advertising in "The Times" land which was “well adapted for a cemetery of public building, situated near the high north road.”.