Tour Overview
Ivanhoe Cemetery is located on the Cobar-Ivanhoe Road. If you are entering Ivanhoe via the Cobb Highway, turn up Behring Street (near the Caltex service station) and follow this road for about 1km (Behring Street is also known as the Cobar-Ivanhoe Road). The cemetery will be on your left.
The Ivanhoe cemetery contains elaborate monuments and simple tributes to local pioneering families. Some are from the early days of Ivanhoe and others are more recent.
As you follow our guided walk of the cemetery, you will notice numerous monuments to men who served during the Boer War, WWI, and WWII. Sadly, there are also many reminders of accidental deaths, mostly by young boys and men.
Like other remote pioneering cemeteries, Ivanhoe cemetery contains unmarked graves. We know the names of the people buried in some of these, due to the early records that were kept, and some of the stories connected to them, including the young Aboriginal boy who was buried here in a kerosene tin coffin; however, a large number of inscriptions have been lost over the years.
The Ivanhoe cemetery is just one of the cemeteries in the local area, as the larger stations often had their own private cemeteries, for the resident families and itinerant workers.
Please walk through this special site with respect to the individuals who lived their lives in the Central Darling and are buried in the red soils of Ivanhoe. Be careful where you place your feet and treat all monuments, new and old, with reverence.
While you walk around, learning the Stories behind the Stones, you will be given directions to the next stop. To simplify these, enter through the main gates and head to the far-right hand side, where you will find your first stop, Reginald Stanmore, a few graves along. Our directions will be determined from that point.
The information for each stop should come onto your phone automatically as you approve the selected grave. However, if your phone is struggling with the GPS function, you should be able to work out the location of the next stop using the directions and photos. If you are looking for someone in particular you can also use the list function (on the top right corner of the interface) and select the person you want to find.
Please be aware that our stories may contain information that some find upsetting, they also contain photographs of deceased people, including Aboriginal people.
We have tried to present all information in a respectful manner, and we hope that you enjoy learning more about the individuals who shaped the town of Ivanhoe.
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