Milton Anglican Pioneer Cemetery in Milton, New South Wales

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Get directions Croobyar Road
Milton, Shoalhaven City, New South Wales 2538 Australia

Coordinates: -35.32050, 150.44194
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The Church of England (Anglican) Pioneer Cemetery at Milton NSW is at 10 Croobyar Rd Milton. Its associated church is the Church of St Peter and St Paul (built 1860), located some 500m away on the Princes Highway in Milton. The approximately 170 burials in the cemetery date from 1859 to 1903, although only about 30 of the graves had permanent headstones. Even before the last burial in 1903 the cemetery was in disrepair and over the following decades the headstones fell or were knocked over by grazing cattle. In 1988 the church sold the land to private owners who erected a stone memorial in the south-east corner of the cemetery. In 2011 an archeological dig of the site revealed many of the buried and badly broken headstones which were carefully documented and then reburied, so the cemetery has no above-ground archeology and presents as garden and mown grass. In 2021 the current owners developed a new management plan for the cemetery in consultation with archeologists and Shoalhaven City Council. They have installed new interpretive signage that explains the cemetery's history and lists all the names, ages and burial dates of those buried, according to the parish register. The Milton Ulladulla Historical Society's website has a detailed history of the cemetery at https://muhsinc.org.au/miltons-church-of-england-cemetery/