Allum Lane Cemetery

Service update 27 January 2022

The cemetery is open to visitors between 9am and 5pm every day of the year.

Visitors are asked to refrain from visiting graves whilst funerals are taking place in the same section.

The health and safety of our staff and visitors to the cemetery remains of paramount importance and we are continually reviewing this and assessing latest guidance from central government.

Our officers are working hard to ensure burials are conducted with dignity and respect and are constantly reviewing the situation and if needed will make changes to these restrictions.

For further information, please email cemetery@hertsmere.gov.uk

Follow advice available by visiting NHS.UK coronavirus or GOV.UK coronavirus.

Further information

Allum Lane Cemetery is located at Allum Lane, Elstree, Herts, WD6 3NN

Funerals can be held between 10.30am to 2.30pm any weekday (except on bank holidays)

Consecrated plots (blessed by a Church of England Bishop) and unconsecrated plots are available for burials

Ashes graves are all in consecrated grounds

A car park is located by the entrance and visitor parking is available throughout the grounds

Restricted vehicle access may be in force whilst funerals are in process.

Site history

Allum Lane Cemetery in Elstree was originally opened in the early sixties with the first burial in July 1962. It stands on the grounds of the old Radnor Hall Estate, which was demolished in the late 1950s.

Graves can be bought for one, two or three interments.

Graves in full plots can be reopened with the permission of the grave owner providing that the grave is not already full.

Muslim graves are located in Sections M and N of the cemetery.

Cremations do not take place at the cemetery but cremated remains can be buried there. Each ashes grave can contain up to four caskets. New graves for cremated remains are situated together in the area of the cemetery marked TCR although old graves can be reopened to include ashes providing they are not full.

There are a small number of common graves within the cemetery. A maximum of three burials will be made in a common grave and ownership of these stays with the council.

Allum Lane is a lawn cemetery designed to look neat and be easy to maintain. This means only certain types of memorials are allowed and no upright headstones, fencing around graves or grave edging is permitted. For more information and sizes on memorials please contact the Cemetery Officer on cemetery@hertsmere.gov.uk

Gravel or stone chippings are NOT to be laid by individuals. A uniform strip of chippings will be put down by us when various rows are completed.

No dogs (apart from guide dogs) are permitted within the grounds of the cemetery.