Rose Hill Natural Burial Ground, Huddersfield South Yorkshire Woodland Burial Ground, Ulley Northumbrian Woodland Burials, Bockenfield Set in 45 acres of pasture woodland and fishing lakes Respect Natural Woodland Green Burial ParkĪ159, Laughton, Between Gainsborough & Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire The Woodland Cemetry, Ellenbrook, Manchester The West Pennine Remembrance Park, Entwistle, Lancashire Seven Penny Meadows Green Field Burial Ground, Medomsley, Co Durham Tel: 0131 661 .uk/įriends of Nature Burial Ground, Mobberley, Cheshireĭalton Woodland Burial Ground, Burton-in-Kendal, Cumbria.
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(The full list of all 200+ sites can be found in the Natural Death Handbook.) List of Natural Burial Grounds in Britain On that basis, we provide here a list of dedicated sites not consecrated to any particular religious tradition. However, we feel that a good natural burial ground should be a dedicated site, not attached to a conventional cemetery or crematorium.
If we look at all the various kinds of site, there are at the time of writing (Feb 07) over 200 natural burial grounds in the UK, either in operation or going through the hurdles of planning permission and set up. It is important when considering a natural burial ground, for yourself or for another, that you go and visit the site. The prices vary widely between sites, as they do at other cemeteries. Some are miles from anywhere, while others sit beside busy roads.
Some are simply extensions of an acre or two at the edge of a conventional municipal cemetery or churchyard. Others can be rather formal, with their own chapel of rest, toilets, office and tarmacked roads. Some are very wild, becoming very muddy in the winter months, where trees grow through long grasses, and wellies are necessary for visiting and funerals. Of course, in reality they come in many different forms. In choosing a natural burial, you are contributing to an area which will grow and evolve to be enjoyed for many generations to come. The aim for the majority of natural burial grounds is to develop as areas of outstanding beauty, creating a variety of wildlife rich habitats and a fitting memorial to loved ones. Grave-side services are often held, or the body is interred after a service at a local church or other sacred site, but many people who choose natural burial grounds are not religious, seeking simply the sense of natural peace and beauty that prevails at a well managed site. They are seldom linked to any one religion or belief, although individual graves can be consecrated as desired. Burial of embalmed bodies is not permitted, the embalming chemicals that would leach into the soil being thoroughly poisonous. These are often of willow or wicker, bamboo, solid pine, cardboard or paper maché, constructed without toxic glues, paints and varnishes.
Natural burial grounds become havens for non-human nature.Įnvironmental care requires that only coffins (and urns for cremated remains) made from eco-friendly products are allowed at most natural burial grounds. At some, wild flowers and grasses are sown or planted to create meadows. At some sites, graves are dug carefully beneath already growing trees. There are no headstones, curbs or mausoleum instead, trees and shrubs are planted to serve as natural living memorials. While taking great care to protect and enhance the existing environment, a natural burial ground will, at the same time, gradually develop areas of woodland, meadow and other habitats, through careful management and planting. When it is declared that cremation is a better option because ‘land is for the living’, the speaker’s anthropocentric perception is yelling through his words for the land is for the living, but not just for human beings.
A good natural burial ground is an ongoing expression of respect for both. For here there is a perfect weave of reverence for nature (and in particular the non-human environment) and the ancestors.
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