Below are some of the frequently asked questions about Allum Lane Cemetery. If you can't find what you are looking for, please contact us on cemetery@hertsmere.gov.uk
Anyone can buy a grave at Allum Lane Cemetery, but if you do not live in Hertsmere the fees are tripled.
We provide lawn-type graves, which are maintained by us. After approx. six months the grave is made level and grassed over. One flat plaque and one floral tribute (restrictions apply, see 'memorial tributes’ on our cemetery webpage) can be placed on the grave. Nothing else is allowed to be placed or grown on or around the grave i.e. no headstones or upright memorials.
An unpurchased grave, sometimes known as a public or common grave, is where the right to burial cannot be bought and the council has total control of the grave.
A purchased grave is where the right of burial can be bought for a period of 99 years. The owner of the right of burial can decide who will be buried in the grave and memorials are allowed in line with our cemetery regulations (see ‘memorial tributes’ on our cemetery webpage).
Consecrated ground has been blessed by the Bishop of St Albans. Unconsecrated ground has not. Depending on your religious belief you may have a preference as to which area of ground you wish to purchase a grave in, your funeral director will arrange this.
Although a funeral director will be invited to organise the majority of funerals, some people prefer to organise funerals themselves. These are called personalised or independent funerals.
These sites may be helpful:
National Association of Funeral Directors
Society of Allied And Independent Funeral Directors
Your funeral director can make all the arrangements for the funeral, burial or cremation, religious or secular service. The funeral director can also advise on all the procedures and documents needed to register the death.
We advise you to wait around six months before placing it, but you should contact your monumental mason as soon as possible to avoid any unnecessary delay after this waiting period.
Over the last ten years at Allum Lane Cemetery the following burials and cremated remains interments have taken place;-
2010 – 72 Full burials 52 Ashes interments
2011 – 72 Full burials 78 Ashes interments
2012 – 60 Full burials 71 Ashes interments
2013 – 66 Full burials 74 Ashes interments
2014 – 65 Full burials 76 Ashes interments
2015 – 73 Full burials 60 Ashes interments
2016 – 68 Full burials 54 Ashes interments
2017 – 61 Full burials 73 Ashes interments
2018 – 61 Full burials 70 Ashes interments
2019 – 63 Full burials 75 Ashes interments
2020 – 83 Full burials 61 Ashes interments
2021 - 62 Full burials 49 Ashes interments
2022 - 56 Full burials 70 Ashes interments
2023 - 54 Full burials 64 Ashes interments