Contact Bereavement Services

Contact Bereavement Services for practical help with cremation, burials, memorials, cemetery visits and burial or cremation records.

We are based at Kingsdown Cemetery and Crematorium.


Contact details

You can contact us by telephone, email or post.


Office opening times

The Bereavement Services office is open Monday to Friday. It is closed at weekends and on bank holidays.

Bereavement Services office opening times
Time of year Monday to Friday Weekends and bank holidays
March to October 9.00am to 5.00pm Closed
November to February 9.00am to 4.00pm Closed

Find information online

You may find the information you need on one of our pages:


When to contact us

Contact us if you need help with a Bereavement Services enquiry that is not answered online.

This may include:

  • booking an appointment to search burial or cremation records
  • asking about grave ownership or transferring burial rights
  • arranging a visit before a funeral
  • asking about final resting place or memorial options
  • arranging a cremation or burial without using a funeral director

Registering a death or stillbirth

Bereavement Services cannot register a death or stillbirth. Use our registration pages if you need to do this:

After a death has been registered, you can also use the Tell Us Once service to tell government and council services about the death.

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