Events
From litter picks and planting trees, to helping hedgehogs and recording memorials, our events are always fun, friendly and suitable for most ages! We also have a number of measured walks you can follow in various areas of the cemetery.
Become a Friend!
Friends of Brandwood Cemetery is run purely by unpaid volunteers and we welcome your help! Whether you have family laid to rest here, you are a concerned local resident or are interested in conservation, we need you!
About the Cemetery
On 13 April 1899 George Tallis, Chairman of the Cemetery Committee, opened Brandwood End Cemetery.
Latest News
Take Care in the cemetery
January 11, 2026The weather may be improving but the pathways are still very slippery and dangerous in the cemetery so do take great care if you have to visit. We would suggest that you wait till the snow and cold weather has gone but we know that there are many people who… Read more
Join our Friendly Gardening Volunteers?
January 11, 2026Come and join our Grave Gardeners as they help to clear years of shrubbery shrouding graves. WE ARE A small friendly group who chat whilst WE work ,where you can do as much or as little as you want. Sunday January 18th ,Saturday February 21st .Saturday March 14th Meet by… Read more
So many positive comments
December 30, 2025Who would have thought that these wonderful ‘trees’ would attract such a wave of love. Well done to Valerie for creating something that has obviously touched peoples hearts! Read more
Seasons Greetings to all our supporters
December 30, 2025The Friends and the cemetery have had a wonderful year with many more volunteers than in previous years, mainly working on our special 20th Anniversary Grave Revealing and Recording Project. Nearly every month in 2025 our volunteers contributed in excess of 120 hours between them, which is the equivalent to… Read more
AVOVE volunteers battle wind and rain to clear a coppice area.
December 18, 2025Despite the warning of bad weather we were joined by volunteers from AVOVE in an attempt to clear a large coppice area that was covering a number of graves. You can see the coppice that lies behind the volunteers and the outline of a number of graves hidden within the… Read more
Carol Service a success!
December 18, 2025What a wonderful afternoon we had in Brandwood End as we were joined, for another Christmas Carol Service, by the Choir of St Albans R C Primary School. The rain stayed away and the temperature was just right to enable the choir to sing with gusto. We had some lovely… Read more