High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The London Necropolis Company (LNC), formally the London Necropolis National Mausoleum Company until 1927, was a cemetery operator established by Act of Parliament in 1852 in reaction to the crisis caused by the closure of London`s graveyards in 1851. The LNC intended to establish a single cemetery large enough to accommodate all of London`s future burials in perpetuity. The company`s founders recognised that the recently invented technology of the railway provided the ability to conduct burials a long distance from populated areas, mitigating concerns over public health risks from living near burial sites. Accordingly, the company bought a very large tract of land in Brookwood, Surrey, around 25 miles (40 km) from London, and converted a portion of it into Brookwood Cemetery. A dedicated railway line, the London Necropolis Railway, linked the new cemetery to the city.