Find Cemetery Information
The page provides information about cemetery services in Fair Oak & Horton Heath, including burial options, memorials, and how to make an enquiry.
Fair Oak Cemetery
The Council also maintains the Churchyard and Pember Cemetery at St Thomas Church. The Churchyard is closed to interments.
Bereavement Support
We understand that arranging an internment or memorial can be a difficult and emotional time. If you require bereavement support, the following organisations may be able to help:
- Butterflies Bereavement Support - www.butterfliesbereavement.co.uk
- Cruse Bereavement Care - www.cruse.org.uk
Cemetery Search
The online cemetery search allows visitors to search digitised burial records by name to locate graves and cremation plots using a digital map.
Forms & Guidance
Funeral Director Forms & Guidance Notes
Download forms for arranging burials and cremated remains internments on behalf of families.
See guidance explaining the information, certificates and the supporting documents required before and interment can take place.
Families Arranging an Internment
Download forms for internment of cremated remains without appointing a funeral director with step by step guidance explaining the application process, ownership requirements, fees and the supporting documentation required.
Memorials
Many families choose to install a memorial as a lasting tribute to a loved one. Fair Oak Cemetery permits a range of memorials, subject to the Council's Memorial Regulations, which help ensure memorials remain safe, dignified and suitable for a lawn cemetery environment.
Before installing, altering or replacing a memorial, an application must be approved by the Council. Families are encouraged to read the guidance notes and memorial regulations before making arrangements.
Approved memorial masons can assist with the application process and ensure memorials comply with the required standards.
Current application forms, guidance notes and memorial regulations can be downloaded below.
- Memorial Application Form
- Memorial Guidance Notes
- Memorial Regulations
- Memorial Management Policy
- Memorial Inspection Procedure
Grave Ownership & Transfers
The owner of the Exclusive Right of Burial is responsible for authorising future interments and memorial work within a grave or cremated remains plot. Where the registered owner has died, ownership will normally need to be transferred before further interments or memorial work can take place.
Applicants are responsible for providing evidence to support any transfer application. Depending on the circumstances, this may include probate, letters of administration, statutory declarations or other supporting documentation. The Council is unable to determine family entitlement, inheritance rights or ancestry on behalf of applicants
Grave Ownership Documents
- Transfer of Exclusive Right of Burial Guidance
- Transfer Application Forms
- Statutory Declaration Forms (if applicable)
Exclusive Rights of Burial & Transfers
The Exclusive Right of Burial gives the registered owner the legal right to authorise future burials within a grave or plot and approve memorial work. It does not five ownership of the land iself.
Burials
Applications for the interment of ashes must be submitted to the Council together with the required documentation and any ownership or consent evidence that may be required. Interment dates and times must be agreed with the Council in advance.