The Ascension Parish Burial Ground, formerly St Giles and St Peter's Parish, is a cemetery in Cambridge, England. It includes the graves and memorials of many University of Cambridge academics and non-conformists of the 19th and early 20th century. The cemetery encapsulates a century-and-a-half of the University's modern history. The one and a half acres of the burial ground were established in 1857 when extra burial space was needed as the city of Cambridge expanded in Victorian times. The first burial there was in 1869. Today some 2,500 people are buried in 1,500 plots. Many city and university dignitaries, scientists and scholars are buried there including two Vice-Chancellors and three Nobel prize winners. Ten members of the Cambridge Apostles are interred in this burial ground.