London Road Cemetery Armistice tours

11am tour in Paxton’s Arboretum

This tour starts at the Anglican Chapel and takes in a number of private memorials to the fallen from campaigns all over the world including the Boer War and WW1 in France and Belgium, and also veterans of Waterloo, The Indian Mutiny, New Zealand, The Crimea, and the Sudan.

1pm tour of Coventry’s  World War II  Heroes”

This tour tells the story of Coventry’s War through the experiences of its soldiers, airmen, sailors, bomb squad, home guard, firemen, policemen, doctors, nurses and air raid personnel. This tour will start at the Anglican Chapel and then continue with a walk to the 1880s extension including the Blitz Memorial, the Designated Services Graves and the scattered Commonwealth War Commission Graves between the Blitz Memorial and the London Road itself.

There are uneven paths in the cemetery.

Tours will start at the Anglican Chapel, within London Road Cemetery – London Road Cemetery, CV1 2JT.

We encourage you to arrive via public transport or by bike or on foot.

Parking is available:
Charterhouse Drive (Off London Road)
Coventry
CV1 2JR

Location of the parking at Charterhouse Drive on Google maps

Visitors arriving by car should park in the Charterhouse car park (London Road, Coventry CV1 2JR) and enter the cemetery through the carriageway entrance, then turn right and look left to locate the Anglican Chapel.