Mutton Lane Cemetery
Cemetery in Hertfordshire, England
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Mutton Lane Cemetery, officially known as St Mary's Cemetery, is a cemetery in Mutton Lane, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, that is associated with nearby St Mary the Virgin and All Saints church. The cemetery includes a garden of remembrance for British prisoners of war.[1]
History
In 1909 a gothic-style lychgate was built on the northern side of the cemetery which is locally listed by Hertsmere Borough Council.[2]
The cemetery contains thirteen Commonwealth war graves of service personnel, three from World War I and ten from World War II.[3] The cemetery also used to hold the German war graves of Hauptmann Wilhelm Schramm and the 15 crew of his airship, the SL-11, and Kapitan Heinrich Mathy and his crew of the Zeppelin LZ 72, which were separately shot down in 1916; they were more recently reburied at the Cannock Chase German Military Cemetery.[1][4]
The cemetery was closed to new burials in the 1970s, however, ashes may still be interred there.[1]
