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Notification of price increase

Our cremation, burial and memorial prices will be increasing from 1st April 2026. We will update this website from 1st April, but you can download the revised price list in advance.

Burial and interment costs

The following costs are for the exclusive right of burial for 75 years and are inclusive of VAT, where applicable. 

Liverpool residents contribute to the maintenance and upkeep of our cemeteries via Council Tax and therefore pay lower fees than non-residents of the city.

Burial and interment fees
Description Cost for city resident Cost for non-city resident
Full size grave £1287 £2574
Cremated remains grave (including concrete foundation) £875 £1750
Woodland grave £1100 £2200
Interment within a full size grave £1058 £2116
Interment of cremated remains to a depth greater than 900mm £531 £1062
Interment of cremated remains £329 £658
Interment of additional set of cremated remains (one excavation) £186 £186
Adjust grave size when excavation has taken place £188 £188
Burial in Allerton Cemetery Woodland £869 £1738
There is no charge for the interment of a child up to 18 years.

Additional charges

  • Transfer right of burial/Form of indemnity: £120
  • Saturday interment fee: Plus 50% of charges above
  • Sunday interment fee: Plus 100% of charges above
  • Burial of coffin or casket above 6 foot 6 inches by 26 inches: £180
  • Use of crematorium chapel: £255
  • Faith standby fee: £116
  • Register search (for each year searched per cemetery): £23
  • Full body exhumation: £3283
  • Cremated remains exhumation from full size grave: £1567
  • Cremated remains exhumation from cremated remains grave: £658
  • Submission of late statutory paperwork (after 10am on the working day before burial): £71
  • Coffin size or shape not as stated on application: £310
  • Assistance of self-organised interment: £234
  • Site meeting with a member of the Bereavement Team to select grave (per meeting): £420
  • Cancellation or rescheduling within 48 hours of a burial: £100
  • Late arrival/departure fee which impacts on other services (later than 10 minutes): £80
  • Grave memorial late removal fee (where memorial is not removed within specified time: £80

Administration fee

Applies where the task should be completed by the Funeral Director via Plotbox. Fee will also be applied to processing of payments via card, cheque or postal order, or to errors/omissions on the submitted documents which are not corrected by 10am, two working days prior to the event.

You can download a copy of the cemeteries and burial service charges below: