Ruapuna Cemetery is a rural cemetery located on Coskeries Road. By the mid 1890's an acre of land had been set aside for the development of a cemetery close to Mayfield in the Ashburton District of Canterbury. Until then, the nearest cemetery for the residents of Mayfield township had been Mt Somers Cemetery. Mayfield is a small farming settlement in mid Canterbury, located 35km from Ashburton. The new burial ground was called Ruapuna Cemetery. The earliest recorded burial is 1897. The cemetery is very small and dominated by the families Sewell, Dellow, Allan and Bennett.