Natural Green Burial Sites List
Woodland Burial Sites and Parks in the United Kingdom
Woodland Burial Grounds for sustainable burial, UK wide
(Please note that due to the growing popularity of woodland burial the list is constantly being added to and suggestions for additions or ammendments would be welcomed.)
London
Brockley Cemetery, Lewisham
- telephone: 0783 4145078 email:
Woodland Burial Ground, West Drayton Cemetery, West Drayton, Middlesex
- telephone: 01895 250650 email:
South East
Abingdon Cemetery, Abingdon, Oxfordshire
- telephone: 01235 553480
Beaulieu Woodland Burial Ground, Lymington, Hampshire
- now full but New Forest District Council has alternative sites at its Eling and Milford Road Cemeteries listed below
Bicester Cemetery, Bicester, Oxfordshire
- provides a "green area" not a woodland burial area telephone: 01869 252915
- woodland section within cemetery
- small woodland section within main cemetery
Cuckfield Cemetery, Cuckfield, Haywards Heath, Sussex
- natural burial area telephone: 01444 417891
- small woodland section very few plots available
Otford Parish Council Cemetery, Otford, Sevenoaks, Kent
- telephone: 01959 524808
- woodland section within cemetery
Woodland Garden Cemetery, Bybrook, Ashford, Kent
- telephone: 01233 637311
South West
Bridport Woodland Burial Ground, Dorset
- telephone: 01308 422 687
Cleeve Priory Woodland Burial Ground, Watchet, Somerset
- telephone: 07852 555930
Haycombe Cemetery, Woodland Section, Bath, Somerset
- environmetally proactive but not specifically woodland burial
Mole Valley Green Burial Ground, South Molton, Devon
- telephone: 01769 574512
Pontsmill Green Burials, Par, Cornwall
- telephone: 01726 813975
- single plot woodlands burial
Tavistock Cemetery, Devon
- telephone: 01822 612799
East
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woodland glade
Greenwood Burial Ground, Saxmundham, Suffolk
- telephone:
01728 603108
Harwood Park Woodland Cemetery, Stevenage, Hertfordshire
- telephone:
01438 815555
- meadowland burial area
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woodland glade
Parndon Wood, Harlow, Essex
- telephone:
01279 446199
Woodside Cemetery, Benfleet, Essex
- telephone: 01268 294907 email:
East Midlands
Grantham Green Burial Cemetery, Lincolnshire
- telephone: 01476 563083
- woodland section (since 2004)
West Midlands
- woodland glade planned for 2012 opening
- more detailed web link to be made available in future
- telephone: 01952 814338
- an area earmarked for woodland use in the future
- more detailed web link to be made available in future
Westhope Church Meadow Green Burial Ground, Craven Arms, Shropshire
- telephone: 01584 861293
Yorkshire
- internment of cremated remains
Lawns Wood Cemetery, Adel, Leeds, Yorkshire
- telephone: 0113 2673188
Mowthorpe Independent Garden of Rest, Terrington, Yorkshire
- telephone: 01653 648459
- new site being planned
- woodland burial ground
North East
- meadowland burial area
Allendale Cemetery, Allendale, Northumberland
- telephone: 01434 345177 email:
- woodland site
North West
- natural woodland burial area
Barrow Cemetery, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria
- telephone: 01229 876542
- the very first of its kind in the UK
- telephone: 01772 794585 email:
- telephone: 01204 856848
Wales
- ashes burials but no new graves
Scotland
Northern Ireland
At present there is no provision in N. Ireland but the subject is now on the agenda at
Eire
- Ireland's first natural burial ground (2010), planning in hand for sites in Galway and Co. Cork
- Campaigning to establish sites in Ulster, Leinster, Connaught and Munster
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