Burial fees and charges

Purchase of ground

Cost

Lairs for one or two interments

£1,350.00*

Woodland burial - land (includes tree and marker)

£1,074.00

Lairs for cremation caskets (up to four)

£1,350.00*

Interments

Cost

Adults (first, or reopen)

£965.00

Woodland burial - interment

£965.00

Cremation caskets

£370.00

Interments Saturday (last interment 10.30am)

Cost

Adult

£1,219.00

Cremation caskets

£540.00

Interments Sunday, holidays or outwith seasonal working hours

Cost

Adult

£1,583.00

Cremation caskets

£678.00

Outwith Scottish Borders

Purchase of ground

£1,871.00*

Interments

Cost

Adult

£1,411.50

Cremation caskets

£519.00

Interments Saturday (last interment 10.30am)

Cost

Adult

£1,792.50

Cremation caskets

£774.00

Interments Sunday, holidays or outwith seasonal working hours

Cost

Adult

£2,338.50

Cremation caskets

£981.00

Administrative charges

Cost

Fee selling lair back to us

10% of price paid

Fee to test dig a lair

£893.00

Marking a grave for placement of small memorial

£119.00

Scattering Ashes

£72.00

Other charges

Cost

Re-issue of lair certificate

£37.00

Burial search fee - first hour

£58.00

Burial search fee - second hour

£58.00

Burial search fee - each additional hour

£14.00

Headstone foundations

Cost

Marking out, excavate, lay foundation

£276.00

Marking out, excavate only

£232.80

Memorial Tree

£93.60

*Includes foundation fee.

 

Cemeteries

Address: Council Headquarters
Newtown St. Boswells
Melrose
TD6 0SA

Telephone: 0300 100 1800