It is located in the south western corner of Hertfordshire and close to the boundary with Greater London.

This was later a girls school, Highfields, which was demolished in 1960 to make way for USAF married quarters.

The area gained some notoriety as the fictional Plummers Park, the setting for Leslie Thomas' 1970s novel Tropic of Ruislip,[4] which had wife swapping as one of its themes.

Carpenders Park Lawn Cemetery is owned and operated by the London Borough of Brent.

The Hartsbourne stream meanders through fourteen acres of mature woodland - the key feature of the cemetery - and there is a small lake.