Burial fees for residents of Wirral

Interment (Burial)

This can only be arranged where the Exclusive Right of Burial has been purchased.

The interment fee includes:

  • excavating of the grave
  • supplying lowering webbing and grass matting
  • an allocation of 20 minutes for a service held at the graveside
  • re-filling and mounding the grave and leaving tidy of the area
  • topping up of the grave during settlement period and the levelling and grass seeding of the grave after full settlement

Burial within full-sized grave for a person aged 18 or over

Where two persons are interred in a single grave at the same time (excluding cremated remains) the second interment will be reduced by 25%.

Size of grave Cost
Single depth burial £951
Double depth burial £1,024
Treble depth burial £1,100
Quadruple depth burial £1,178

Burial of ashes for a person aged 18 or over

Size of casket Cost
Standard casket £310
Double sized casket £469
Internment of Cremated Remains to a depth greater than 3 foot £535

View the fees for scattering of ashes on a private grave

Please ensure that the required forms and payment are received 2 working days before the service. An appointment is required.

Children and babies

There is no charge for babies under 24 weeks gestation, for stillborn babies and for children under 18. Our fee will be claimed from The Children’s Funeral Fund for England where applicable.

Other charges

Organs and other body parts (no use of a chapel) £310
Additional fee where the coffin width is 28 inches or greater £310
Additional fee where the coffin length is 6 feet 11 inches or greater £310
Weekend burial fee Plus 50%
Use of Landican or Frankby Cemetery chapel 
per 20-minute service time
£234