Hall Cemetery

Hall Cemetery is the oldest publicly owned cemetery in the ACT, dedicated in 1883, with the first recorded burial in 1907. It is a small rural cemetery mainly for long-time residents of the Hall region. Hall Cemetery is the last resting place of many of the district’s pioneering families and the well known author Bryce Courtenay was buried there in 2012.

It is divided into religious denominations and a special memorial wall for cremated remains is available for the interment of ashes.

What do I need to know before visiting Hall Cemetery?

Hall Cemetery is home to very rare and endangered plants including the Tarengo Leek Orchid which is listed as Endangered under the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 (TSC Act), the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) and the ACT Nature Conservation Act 1980.

To allow for these precious plants to flower and seed, mowing the grass is not possible in the spring and early summer and we also ask visitors to help us maintain a safe and protected environment for our community now, and in the future, by abiding by the following rules.

• Plants are not be planted without prior approval from Canberra Memorial Parks (see Allowable plants list below before requesting permission)
• No items are to be attached to a monument without prior approval from Canberra Memorial Parks.
• Potted plants or additional objects/containers, particularly those made of glass, metal or crockery are not allowed.
• Dogs must be kept on a leash at all times.
• Prior to commencing work, tradespersons must register their presence and location of work with Canberra Memorial Parks.
• Construction and maintenance of any monument must be carried out by an approved tradesperson and only after the issue of a permit from Canberra Memorial Parks.

Items that do not comply with the above regulations, or which are considered hazardous may be removed without notice.

Allowable plants list at Hall Cemetery

• Asperula conferta – Common Woodruff
• Bulbine bulbosa – Bulbine Lily
• Calocephalus citreus – Lemon Beauty-heads
• Carex appressa – Tall Sedge
• Chrysocephalum apiculatum – Common Everlasting
• Chrysocephalum semipapposum – Clustered Everlasting
• Convolvulus erubescens – Australian Bindweed
• Craspedia spp. – Billy Buttons
• Cynoglossum suaveolens – Sweet Hounds tongue
• Desmodium varians – Slender Tick Trefoil
• Dianella longifolia – Smooth Flax-lily
• Dianella revoluta – Black-anther Flax lily
• Eryngium ovinum – Blue Devil
• Glycine tabacina – Vanilla Glycine
• Goodenia pinnatifida – Scrambled egg plant
• Hardenbergia violacea – False Sarsaparilla
• Leptorhynchos squamatus – Scaly buttons
• Leucochrysum albicans – Hoary sunray
• Lomandra bracteata – Short-flowered Mat-rush
• Lomandra filiformis – Wattle Mat-rush
• Lomandra longifolia – Spiny-headed Mat-rush
• Lomandra multiflora – Many-flowered Mat-rush
• Pimelia curviflora – Curved Rice-flower
• Stackhousia monogyna – Creamy Candles
• Stylidium gramineum – Grassland trigger plant
• Vittadinia cuneata – Fuzzy New Holland daisy
• Vittadinia muelleri – New Holland daisy
• Wahlenbergia spp – Native Bluebells
• Austrodanthonia spp. – Wallaby grasses
• Austra bigeniculata – Tall Speargrass
• Austrostipsiflora – Brushtail Speargrass
• Austrostipa scabra – Corkscrew Speargrass
• Elymus scaber – Wheat grass
• Joycea pallida – Reer wallaby grass
• Microleana stipoides – Weeping grass
• Poa labillardierei – River tussock
• Sorghum leiocladum – Sorghum
• Themeda triandra – Kangaroo grass