Graveyard A graveyard , also known as a cemetery , was a place where the remains of dead people were buried . In Cornwall , in the 17th century , the First Doctor , Ben Jackson and Polly Wright searched for clues about a treasure in a church graveyard ; they found them on the gravestones , which led them to the church crypt . ( TV : " The Smugglers " ) In the 1820s , William Burke and Billy Hare robbed graveyards for Dr . Robert Knox . ( AUDIO : " Medicinal Purposes " ) In 1851 , Reverend Aubrey Fairchild was buried in a London graveyard , where the Cybermen killed everyone in attendance . ( TV : " The Next Doctor " ) On 25 December 1892 , Clara Oswin Oswald was buried in a London graveyard . In the 21st century , Clara Oswald took a shortcut through the graveyard . ( TV : " The Snowmen " ) In 1963 , the Hand of Omega was buried in a Shoreditch graveyard as a trap for the Dalek s . Later , Mike Smith was buried in the same graveyard . ( TV : " Remembrance of the Daleks " ) In 1997 , when Mordred , a knight from an alternate Earth , fought on the sacred soil of a church graveyard , construed as " a shrine to those fallen in battle " , Morgaine banished him for dishonouring the dead . ( TV : " Battlefield " ) In 2005 , Ellie Oswald was buried in a graveyard in Blackpool . ( TV : " The Rings of Akhaten " ) In 2007 , Sally Sparrow visited the graveyard where Kathy Nightingale and Ben Wainwright were buried . ( TV : " Blink " ) In 2012 , the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond landed in a New York City graveyard when they tried to go to 1938 to retrieve Rory Williams , who had been transported there . When Amy and Rory were permanently transported to the past by a Weeping Angel , they were buried in the same graveyard when they died . ( TV : " The Angels Take Manhattan " ) Around the 2010s , the dead rose from their graves as Cybermen . Danny Pink , retaining control himself as a Cyberman brought Clara Oswald to a cemetery where the dead were still rising as Cybermen . There , he sacrificed himself to save the world by flying the Cybermen into the rain clouds and self - destructing , burning up the clouds . As the Doctor prepared to kill , the Brigadier , now a Cyberman himself , appeared to kill her and spared the Doctor from having to commit murder . He also dropped off his daughter who he had saved from death . ( TV : " Death in Heaven " ) Missy had in fact survived , having used the energy from the blast to power her vortex manipulator to teleport away . ( TV : " The Witch ' s Familiar " ) In 2020 , the Eleventh Doctor , Amy Pond and Rory Williams visited the graveyard in Cwmtaff , where the Doctor found patches of blue grass and Rory learned that graves were being robbed . ( TV : " The Hungry Earth " ) In the 26th century , the planet Heaven was designated as a graveyard world by human s and Draconian s . ( PROSE : " Love and War " ) In the 372nd century , the casualties suffered by Professor Sorenson ' s expedition to Zeta Minor led to the creation of a graveyard there , adjacent to the team ' s base . ( TV : " Planet of Evil " ) On the Monarch ' s ship , the Fifth Doctor was shown a graveyard for all the people abducted from Earth in different epochs . ( TV : " Four to Doomsday " ) Mordane was a graveyard world until the dead started coming back to life , after which it was placed under quarantine . ( PROSE : " The Graves of Mordane " ) During the Last Great Time War , the War Doctor and Cinder visited a graveyard under the Citadel , where dead and dying TARDIS es were hosted . The Doctor ' s TARDIS was taken there in order to be destroyed . ( PROSE : " Engines of War " ) In an alternate future , the planet Trenzalore hosted a battlefield graveyard , which included the Doctor ' s tombstone . ( TV : " The Name of the Doctor " )