Please see below the 2024/2025 Burial Ground Fees and Guidance Notes
| Interments
*Martock Parish Council has an appointed grave digger |
Fees
|
| Burial up to 1 year of age | £0 |
| Burial up to 18 years of age | £70.00 |
| Burial over 18 years of age | £250.00 |
| Ashes up to 1 year of age | £0 |
| Ashes up to 18 years of age | £70.00 |
| Ashes over 18 years of age | £140.00 |
| Scattering of ashes
(Not permitted in the Garden of Remembrance) |
£70.00 |
| Exclusive Right of burial | Fees |
| Burial Plot | £600.00 |
| Ashes Plot | £250.00 |
| Garden of Rest | £250.00 |
| Transfer of Rights | £100.00 |
| Buy Back Option | £100.00 |
| Memorials | Fees |
| Monument not exceeding 6ft | £200.00 |
| Tablet | £150.00 |
| Vase | £100.00 |
| Additional inscription | £100.00 |
| Removal/replacement | £100.00 |
Interments
Where the deceased is not an inhabitant or parishioner of the Parish of Martock the fee for interment is trebled.
Where a funeral is paid for out of the social fund, no fees, payments and sums will be enforced on receipt by the council of proof of such funding.
The parish council does not carry out any work related to the excavation of burial plots, all work being arranged with the council’s agreed grave digger, via the funeral director.
Exclusive Rights of Burial
A deed of grant of exclusive right of burial for a period of 99 years.
Monuments, gravestones, tablets and monumental inscriptions
For the right to erect or place on a grave in respect of which the exclusive right of burial has been granted.
Monuments, gravestones, tablets and monumental inscriptions will be trebled unless the unless the exclusive right of burial in the grave was acquired by an inhabitant or parishioner of Martock.
Martock Parish Council Burial Ground Fees 2024-2025