Holders Hill, London

Hendon Park Cemetery was opened in 1899 on fields belonging to Dollis Farm, by the Abney Park Cemetery Company. This ancestry can be seen at the entrance with its half-timbered gate house and gothic signing.
A recent sad episode was that Hendon was one of three cemeteries (the others being East Finchley and Mill Hill) that were sold off for only 5 pence each by Dame Shirley Porter's Westminster Council to an off-shore company. They then went through a number of owners, ending up with a company called Cemetery Management Limited, which bought them for £750,000 in 1987. The graveyards were stripped of their assets and left to ruin until the deal was exposed and the Council was forced to buy them back from CML for £4.5 million only five years later. Thankfully, the cemetery has now been restored back to normality.

There is a war memorial at the eastern end of the cemetery that commemorates 27 of those who fell in the Second World War.

Those known to have been buried here:

George Alfred Dane, age: 21, burial date: 29/3/1945, remarks: also commemorated on the war memorial

Elizabeth Hannah Reffell, age: 67, burial date: 8/1962

Arthur Edward Reffell, age: 70, burial date: 12/1964