 In December 1855 the first grave to be purchased was bought by George Askew, a local Tailor and Draper who had a triple wide vault built.By the 1860s graves were being bought by Tiverton's wealthier families and it was at this time that some of the cemetery's grandest monuments were built, at least one of which, that of William Rudall Haydon (c.1845 – 1897) and other members of his family, is a Grade II listed monument.By the middle of the 1880s the original cemetery was filling up and an adjoining plot of another three acres was purchased and opened in 1895.