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I have got the deeds to my great grandparents burial plot off my mom to photocopy. When my great grandad died in 1939 my great grandmother purchased a double plot for him to be buried in and her later the cost of a double plot? three pounds ten shillings!!! anyone know the cost nowadays?

Well looking at the costs here in Stoke on Trent, it seems to be £800 to lease a plot for 25 years, £575 to bury an individual to a depth of 6ft, and £150 for every extra 5 years you want to renew the lease. That's just for city residents, the price triples for non city residents! Sam x

Linda, i bought my plot in 1995 for £80.(double) i expect it's double by now.

In 1948 my mother purchased a plot from Brighton council for 'the exclusive right of burial in plot 7 sect.ZHY consecrated ground' at Brighton cemetary.Cost,One pound ten shillings. What it would cost today I dread to think. Sylv.

That should have read One pound ten shillings. Either my comp. is playing up or board is! Sylv.

wow how things have changed! Sam I am wondering how you lease a grave for 25 years? what do they do after that if you don't pay again? makes me shiver! further to this in 1969 my great aunt was cremated sixteen pounds 10 shillings just to have a place to put a plaque!

I have a funeral invoice for my grt grandfather - DATED 18 MAY 1948 (funeral directors: H.W. Simpson, 241 East St, Walworth - funeral costs - £27.00) You can see the prices starting to creep up - but the cost today is totally outrageous!!

Just today I was looking through a history book which had a picture showing a horse-drawn omnibus from 1915. It was taken outside a funeral parlour which advertised 'child's funeral from 15/-'. My husband's aunt has a bill dated 1965 for cleaning a memorial to heard dead husband, supplying new green chippings and engraving the headstone for £29.15.0d. The actual funeral, also 1965 was £84.15.0d including coffin with plate and crucifix, assistants and conveyance, hearse, limosines and cash disbursements to the cemetery. nell

My Grandfather bought a triple person plot in 1951 for six pounds.My mother was buried in the plot in 1995.Her funeral expenses were in excess of £1,200.00 and that was on top of us already owning the plot.How much now?Also when my step-father died we wanted his ashes to be buried in the plot with Mum and her parent's.He died in 2003 and we had to pay a 'sexton' at the cemmetry £40 just to remove a small piece of turf. Kat

Where I live, the council charge £95 just to read the inscription you would like on the gravestone and say, ''yes'' or ''no''. How long does that take?! Merry

well that's it then, I amnot going to die, I can't afford to!!

we own a grave/plot locally - was bought in 1949 for a few pounds and is owned by the family in perpetuity - it can hold up to 3 coffins - only one there. we also own a cremated remains plot for up to 4 sets of remains - have a plaque there for Pauls father - his ashes were scattered, so no-one is actually resident there yet. that was bought a year or so ago - and cost over £500 for a 50 or 75 year lease (cant remember which without looking for the paperwork) its a dear do to die these days

Have no first-hand knowledge of current charges, although I know that in our local cemetery, memorial plaques for people who were cremated are only valid for 10 years.......after that, the family have to pay renewal charges. Reg

I am sure that I read in the paper this week that the current cost of a burial is around £3000, cremation about £1500. Ann Glos

Daddy's plot (single) was bought 4 weeks ago for £495 with a 50 year lease.... there is room for 8 cremated remains and the 50 years will be from the last person in. xx

I think the £3000 was the whole cost of the funeral including the actual grave. Ann Glos

My Grandfather was buried in 1916 at Woodgrange Park Cemetery, Forest Gate and the grave was for two people dug 10 feet deep - the total cost of the burial by Messrs. Hayes & English, Hoxton Street was £4.8.1d. I do understand from Googling that the cemetery has been churned up and bones had come to the surface, so I have not travelled to see where he was buried.

Going off the subject of plots and purely as a matter of costs. My Father was cremated in 1962 at a cost of £56. Which was very hard for mum to find then. Mum was cremated in 1998 and the costs had escalated to just under £1400. Lin.