Address: Cemetery Road Cape Clear Vic 3351
Latitude: -37.791269
Longitude: 143.595943
GPS: 37 47.47604, 143 35.75684
The Cape Clear Cemetery (formally the Pitfield Cemetery) is located on Cemetery Road, 1 mile south-west of Cape Clear, on allotment 28A, section C. In 1868, the site was gazetted for a cemetery, along with a formal subdivision of lots allocated for the township of Pitfield. The township of Pitfield was abandoned during the late nineteen century, with the cemetery renamed the Cape Clear Cemetery in 1963. The cemetery takes the traditional form of denominational division, with remains of a formal layout, aligned to a straight path leading from the entrance. The earliest headstone dates from 1853 and marks the grave of Joseph Linton, an early pastoralist pioneer of the Linton district, of which the township takes its name. The cemetery also contains the graves of miners and local pioneering families from the Cape Clear, Hollybush, Kaleno, Pitfield Plains, Pitfield, Illabarook, Berringa, Springdallah, Wallinduc, Glenfine, Happy Valley and Western Creek districts.