Town Hall Gardens are 19th-century public gardens in the town centre. The site, formally the Rope Works, was developed as a burial ground (1828) when the previous burial ground of St Mary's Church became overcrowded. Known, by the mid-1860s, as the Chatham Burial Gournd, burials continued until 1870 when a new cemetery opened in Mardstone Road. Under the Open Spaces Act 1877, the land was conveyed from Chatham Parish to Chatham Corporation in 1903. In 1905, the name was changed from the Old Burial Ground to Town Hall Gardens; they were formally opened on 14th june 1905. Two Greenhouses, previously recorded on the site appear to have been removed sometime after 1950, when their removal was suggested by the Corporations Burial Committee.