A portion of the cemetery was dedicated by the Free Church Council on 8th November 1910, following a service at the Wesleyan Church. The rest was consecrated by the Church of England. In reality burials were not segregated.
The land for the cemetery came from Mr Henry Layton of the Rookery and had been farmed before so it needed to have crops cleared, and the earth ploughed before use.
Fencing by Messrs Batting of Marlow. Benches arrived 1913. (Current benches are replacements of the originals)
Originally the cemetery had small areas of formal planting and flower beds, with plants in the first few years provided by Danesfield head gardener Thomas Blackmore.
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