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By the 1840’s Reading’s three cemetery’s were full. The only way that a new burial could take place was for them to be buried on ground already used. This led to the grave digger often coming across bones as he dug a new grave. In 1843 a new cemetery was built, where the Wokingham and London Roads seperated by the Reading Cemetery Company. This gave its name to the crossroads- Cemetery Junction. Few people chose for their family to be buried in the new cemetery until the 1850’s by which time the situation had become so bad that the thee town cemeteries were closed. The Council took over the Cemetery in 1887.