Leavesden Asylum/Hospital Burial Ground
by IanAWood
The hospital cemetary locate along East Lane was one of 3 cemetaries used by the hospital from 1870 to 1994. It can still be visted today.
The litch gate was relocated from the second cemetery on the south side of East Lane around 1905 when this part of the new cemetery was opened.
The National Lottery Heritage Fund has made a grant that has allowed the site to be renovated and researched. When I visited the work was still on going and is centred around the North Burial Ground. I hope that they transfer the headstones from the South ground as the reorder headstones. The trees are mature and some are likely to needed removal. Hopefully they will also do something to improve the access so that those who want to visor will not find it so difficult.
