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Lavender Hill Cemetery is a cemetery in Cedar Road, Enfield, London, administered by the London Borough of Enfield. The cemetery opened in 1872 and has two facing chapels inside the entrance, one for Anglicans and another for non-conformists. The gates to the cemetery featured in all but the final episode of British sitcom On the Buses as the terminus of Stan and Jack's bus route: 'Cemetery Gates'.
Enfield (Lavender Hill) Cemetery
Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
File:Lavender Hill Cemetery 01.JPG, Entrance lodge.
File:Lavender Hill Cemetery 08.JPG, Disused non-conformist chapel.
File:War graves at Lavender Hill Cemetery (2).JPG, War graves, section Z.
File:Graves at Lavender Hill Cemetery 05.JPG, Memorial garden.
File:Graves at Lavender Hill Cemetery 03.JPG, Recent graves.
{{coord, 51, 40, 01, N, 0, 5, 42, W, display=title Enfield, London London Borough of Enfield Cemeteries in London 1872 establishments in England
Lavender Hill Cemetery is a cemetery in Cedar Road, Enfield, London, administered by the London Borough of Enfield. The cemetery opened in 1872 and has two facing chapels inside the entrance, one for Anglicans and another for non-conformists. The gates to the cemetery featured in all but the final episode of British sitcom On the Buses as the terminus of Stan and Jack's bus route: 'Cemetery Gates'.
Creation and design
The Lavender Hill Burial Board was created in 1871 and the cemetery was opened in 1872. The site includes a sandstone lodge and gateway and two facing gothic chapels designed by Thomas J. Hill, one for Anglicans and another for non-conformists, the latter subsequently turned into a store. The grounds were laid out on aserpentine
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scheme with many trees near the entrance on the south side. Today the grounds total 28 acres (11.3 ha) plus a 12-acre (4.8 ha) extension known as the Strayfield Road Cemetery which opened in 1997.
Management
The cemetery is administered by the London Borough of Enfield. It has experienced difficulties due to poor ground conditions and in 2013,subsidence
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was blamed by Enfield borough on water saturation.
Notable interments
*James Whatman Bosanquet
James Whatman Bosanquet (1804–1877) was an English banker and writer on biblical chronology.
Life
He was son of the banker Samuel Bosanquet III of Forest House, Essex, and Dingestow Court, Monmouthshire, (1768–1843) and his wife Laetitia Ph ...
of Claysmore (d. 1877) Large chest tomb. Instrumental in the building of St John the Baptist Church at Clay Hill.
* Heinrich Faulenbach
* Joy Gardner
Joy Angelia Gardner (née Burke, 29 May 1953 – 1 August 1993) was a 40-year-old Jamaican mature student living in London, England, United Kingdom. Gardner died after being detained during a police immigration raid on her home in Crouch E ...
(1953–1993) Jamaican student.
* Neil Goodall (d. 1982) Cook on HMS ''Sheffield'' who died during the Falklands War
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following an Argentine attack.
* Kimble Mathews (d. 1985) Only British victim of the Japan Airlines Flight 123 crash.
* Georgina Twells (d. 1898) and Philip Twells
Philip Twells (1808 – 8 May 1880) was a Conservative Party politician.
Life
He was the second son of John Twells and his wife Mary Line. He attended Charterhouse School, and matriculated in 1827 at Worcester College, Oxford, graduating B.A ...
, M.P. (d. 1880)
* William Watson (1868–1917) of Rowanburn, Dumfries. Freeman of the City of London, along with his widow, Harriet Watson (d. 1918) – both of Spanish Flu.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission record 92 men as buried at Lavender Hill, 33 from the First World War and 57 from the Second World War. A group of twelve exist in section Z with the rest located throughout the cemetery.Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
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External links
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