Rectory Lane Cemetery, Berkhamsted

This week the National Lottery Heritage Fund mark their LoveParks Week with a focus on the Lottery-funded transformation of Rectory Lane Cemetery.

In 2017 the Friends of St Peters received grants totalling £989,200 from The National Lottery through the Parks for People programme. This funding enabled a three-year transformational project to restore a neglected, overgrown Cemetery into a vibrant green space.

The goal of the Rectory Lane Cemetery project was to change perceptions of cemeteries as “dead spaces” and revitalise the many aspects of a cemetery:

• a place of remembrance to commemorate the lives of loved ones
• a heritage asset that celebrates the history of the town
• a rich educational resource
• a space for promoting health and wellbeing
• a wildlife haven

Read more on the National Lottery Heritage Fund website