What to Do with Ashes in

Treasured Memorials creates beautiful, personalised memorial jewellery and keepsakes, lovingly made with ashes and other precious inclusions. Based in Heywood, Greater Manchester, I offer a friendly, personal service from my home studio. I also have jewellery displays in two local funeral directors, McCulloch & Gleave Independant Funeral Service and Mitchell Funeral Service Heywood. I can also do memorial jewellery and Read more…

Nemisis Pyrotechnics run their memorial service under the name Ashes to Flashes, working out of Crewe. They offer it two ways. A full professional display with the ashes incorporated into the rockets and shells, or pre-loaded rockets supplied to the family to fire themselves. The second option matters, because it means you can do it at a place and on Read more…

Ashes interment is confirmed, they take natural burials and interment of ashes. Developing broadleaved woodland near Lavenham, run by a family who have farmed there over 200 years, trading as GF Hawkins since 1954. There’s a Tudor Barn on site for the ceremony and the gathering afterwards. Open to all faiths or none, with single and double plots available to Read more…

Boduan Sanctuary Wood is mixed woodland on the Llŷn Peninsula in Gwynedd, with indigenous trees, ferns, wildflowers and shrubs. Full burial is available, and there are separate areas for ashes to be buried or scattered. Pet burials are also offered. Two things set it apart. Coffins are carried on hand-drawn wooden carts rather than by vehicle, which families often find Read more…

The Vale of Belvoir Natural Burial Ground sits in a wildflower meadow at Bottesford with 360 degree views across the vale. Both meadow burial plots and ashes interment are available, at £1,400 and £500 respectively, with memorial plaques as an option. Published pricing, which is rare. It is run by James, Clair, George and Emily, a family team who look Read more…

Hill Holt Wood is an award-winning woodland social enterprise with charitable status near Norton Disney in Lincolnshire, running education, forestry and health programmes alongside the burial ground. Choosing them puts money into all of that rather than into a private operator. Burials take place at Norton Big Wood, in ancient woodland. The burial area itself is a small clearing surrounded Read more…

Brightwater is a wildflower meadow and woodland beside a spring-fed stream near Owmby, about ten miles north of Lincoln. It has been running since 2009. It is family run by Brightwater Landscapes, the same family who have farmed this land for over 130 years, which is worth knowing when you are choosing somewhere permanent. Both full burial and ashes interment Read more…

Gunton Woodland Burial Park was the first environmentally friendly woodland burial park in the Waveney and Great Yarmouth area. It is run as a non-profit charity rather than a business. Once the start-up loans are repaid, surplus funds go to local causes, so the money families spend stays in the area rather than going to shareholders. That is rare in Read more…

Thoulstone Park is a burial meadow on a 150 acre estate at Chapmanslade in Wiltshire, and the sheep are still grazing it. That is the point. Rather than taking land out of use, the burials happen within a working pastoral landscape, so the meadow stays a meadow and the farm stays a farm. Graves are left unmarked to keep it Read more…

Arnos Vale is five acres of woodland that began life as a Victorian orchard, now grown into habitat for birds, wildflowers and native trees. It is the only dedicated natural burial woodland in Bristol. Both full natural burial and ashes interment are available, and ashes can go into a biodegradable urn or straight into the earth. Graves are single depth Read more…