SOUTH YORKSHIRE WOODLAND BURIAL GROUND

The South Yorkshire Woodland Burial Ground has been described as the most beautiful cemetery in the area.

The triangular site, which is just over two and a half acres, and has now been open for about ten years, can be found on a quiet country lane running between the villages of Ulley and Aston-cum-Aughton, to the east of Sheffield, less than five minutes drive away from junction 31 of the M1.

The Woodland Burial Ground is surrounded by fields and has a small stream running along its boundary with the neighbouring field.

Families who have loved ones buried there often remark how tranquil the site is - an oasis of peacefulness, and yet so near to Sheffield, Rotherham and the motorway network.

PURCHASING A PLOT

If you wish, you can pre-purchase the rights to your own burial plot at the South Yorkshire Woodland Burial Ground. This way you can avoid any future price rises and, at the same time, ensure that a plot is reserved for you.

Plots can be single- or double-depth, although in the case of double depth plots it is not possible for a tree to be planted on the grave until the second interment has taken place. You can also pre-purchase neighbouring plots, or even family plots, and you are allowed to select where within the Burial Ground you would like your plot(s) to be.

Exclusive right of burial in a single plot costs £525 (£425 for a plot without a tree), burial rights to double depth plots cost £745 (£645 for a plot without a tree). At the time of each burial, a fee is charged for digging the grave. This charge is currently £325.

For the burial rights of a cremated remains double plot, the cost is between £345 and £395, depending upon the type of plot chosen. At the time of interment, there will be an additional charge to pay - currently this is £80.

You can pay for your plot either with one outright payment, or by instalments. The minimum size for each instalment is £40 (for a full burial plot) or £30 (for an ashes plot), but you can pay any amount greater than this if you wish.

If you think that you would like to pre-purchase burial rights, or would like some literature to be sent to you, just mark the appropriate box on the Information Request form and we will send you the necessary documents in the post.

Click here for details of our Golden Valley Woodland Burial Ground

DETAILED DIRECTIONS

• The easiest way to get to the burial ground (but not the most scenic) is to leave the M1 at junction 31 (A57) heading in the direction of Sheffield.
  
  
• About 30 yards after you've got on to the A57, turn right(by a fire station). This will bring you into Aston-cum-Aughton.
  
  
• Continue along this road for about half a mile until you come to a significant sized right turn in front of a small parade of shops. Turn right.
  

• After a quarter of a mile, turn right down a narrow lane signed 'Ulley'. The woodland burial ground is about half a mile down the lane on the right hand side

Click here for a map of the area