WOODLAND BURIAL

Golden Valley Burial Ground	South Yorkshire Burial Ground

If you want your passing to bring some benefit to the environment, or just like the idea of a tree being your lasting memorial, you may wish to consider the idea of Woodland Burial.

In a Woodland Burial Ground, or woodland cemetery, trees are used to mark the graves instead of headstones. Such sites have a much less manicured appearance than traditional cemeteries, grasses being 'topped' just two or three times a year, allowing wildflower growth and encouraging wildlife.

And, as more burials take place, the land fills up with trees, and the burial ground becomes a wood. A special place for remembrance and an asset to our environment.

As founder members of the Association of Nature Reserve Burial Grounds, managers of two Woodland Burial Grounds of our own, and as the company with more experience of organising woodland burial across the UK than any other funeral company, Peace Funerals has the expertise to give you the support that you need.

OUR OWN WOODLAND BURIAL GROUNDS

If you live within ready access of Peace Funerals' two Woodland Burial Grounds, why not go and visit and see for yourself how peaceful they are. One of them is in South Yorkshire, about 6 miles from the centre of Sheffield and about 4 miles from the centre of Rotherham; the other is in Derbyshire, near Ripley, north of Nottingham and Derby. They are both open at all times.

Click here for details of the South Yorkshire Burial Ground
Click here for details of the Golden Valley Burial Ground

Both of our Woodland Burial Grounds are dedicated exclusively to woodland burials, unlike the majority of sites which are areas set aside within traditional cemeteries.

Also at our Woodland Burial Grounds, a British native tree, of the family's own choosing, is planted on each grave. And wildflower seed stock harvested from local Sites of Special Scientific Interest is sown to restore the species diversity that has disappeared from our country over the last 50 years.

And so that you will never lose track of where a loved one's grave is located, we also allow a small York stone plaque to be laid flat at the site of the grave.

The burial grounds are open to people of all faiths and to people of none, and ashes plots can also be purchased.

WOODLAND BURIAL IN THE REGION

As well as running two woodland burial grounds of our own, at Peace Funerals we also have experience of arranging environmentally-friendly funerals at a wide range of locations in the region, and beyond.

Sites that we have used on quite a number of occasions include Wisewood Cemetery in Sheffield, and Hope Cemetery in Derbyshire, both of which have woodland burial sections within traditional cemeteries.

But please contact us if you live in Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire or Derbyshire and would like our help, as your funeral directors, in arranging a woodland burial at a cemetery near you. We have quite an extensive knowledge of sites from Buxton to Skipton, and from Nottingham to Sheffield, and will be able to help you to identify a location that meets your needs.

If you want to know about woodland burial in another part of the country, then click here.