Cemetery Fees
1st April 2017 – 31st March 2018
Purchase Fees
Adult
£585.00
Child (under 12 years)
This purchase fee also applies to
plots for stillborn babies or NVF
£237.00
Adult - reserved plot
£663.00
Adult Non-resident
Adult Non-resident - reserved
Garden of Remembrance - Lydd
£1,130.00
£1,286.00
For 4 ashes
Inclusive of first use & memorial fee
£595.00
Single Ashes – New Romney
£372.00
Inclusive of memorial fee & ashes
interment
Double ashes plot – New Romney
£595.00
Inclusive of first use & memorial fee
Burial Fees
Stillborn
No fee
Child (under 12 years)
£197.00
Adult
Single - first use
Single - first use reserved plot
Double - first use
Double - first use reserved plot
Triple - first use
Triple - reserved plot
Single - re-open to
Double - re-open to
£656.00
£734.00
£928.00
£1006.00
£1,211.00
£1,289.00
£646.00
£918.00
Non-residents
Double fees
Burials first use includes rose bush
Ashes interment in casket/urn &
ashes scattered under topsoil
Ashes – scattering on top of grave
£140.00
£48.00
Use of Chapel
Hawkinge only
£138.00
Green Burial
Hawkinge only
£982.00
Other Fees
Exhumation
Late Interment
Additional charges
Transfer of Deed of Grant
Outside normal hours by arrangement only
£1188.00/at cost
£133.00
150% of usual fee
£103.00
Headstones and memorials
Applicable to all cemeteries / all plots
Headstone - Right to erect
Vase/tablet
Kerbs per grave
Additional Inscription – can only be
inscribed on memorials for the
deceased who are interred in the
grave
£240.00
£92.00
£426.00
£72.00
Laying down of unsafe memorial
£121.00
Stillborn (purchased plots only)
Free memorial right
Memorial Guidelines
Headstones not exceeding
137cm high (4ft 6 inches)
92cm wide (3ft)
10cm thick (4 inches)
Base not exceeding
9.2cm high (3.5 inches)
97cm wide (3ft 2 inches)
38cm back to front (1ft 3 inches)
Foundation slabs not exceeding
9.2cm high (3.5 inches)
102cm wide (3ft 4 inches)
46cm back to front (1ft 6 inches)
Cemeteries Office Shepway District Council Civic Centre Castle Hill Avenue Folkestone Kent CT20 2QY
01303 853407 [email protected]