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Cemeteries


What is the Cemeteries Service?

The Cemeteries Service has responsibility for:

  • Maintaining statutory records relating to burials
  • Providing information regarding location of graves and dates of burials
  • Co-ordinating the service between Funeral Director and Cemetery staff
  • Allocating grave spaces, location of spaces for re-use, reserved grave purchases and the booking of the Cemetery Chapel
  • Approval of memorials and added inscriptions
  • Organising the purchase of memorial benches
  • Organising the entries for the Book of Remembrance 

Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council have responsibility for Ashby Road Cemetery, Hinckley.

Cemetery maintenance and maintenance of closed churchyards (St Mary's Church in Hinckley, Holy Trinity Church in Hinckley, St Mary's Church in Barwell, Unitarian Chapel in Hinckley, St Michael's of all Angels in Markfield, Baptist Church in Earl Shilton, United Reformed Church in Earl Shilton, St. Simon & St. Judes Parish Church in Earl Shilton) is carried out by:

Groundcare Services
Middlefield Lane
Hinckley
Leicestershire
LE10 0RA 
Telephone: 01455 255978

The Vision

To provide a respectful, efficient and sympathetic burial service to the community and our key partners, e.g. Funeral Directors and Monumental Masons.

The Action Plan

The Cemetery Service Action Plan can be viewed in the files below.

Cemeteries frequently asked questions 


Files

Kathy Melia
Cemetery Clerk
Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council
Council Offices
Argents Mead
Hinckley
Leicestershire
LE10 1BZ

Telephone : 01455 255707

Fax : 01455 891708

Email : CemeteryServices@hinckley-bosworth.gov.uk

Website: http://www.hinckleyandbosworthonline.org.uk/pp/gold/viewgold.asp?id=3394

Last updated : 06/02/2009 09:17:10

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