Cemeteries and Crematoria
Cemeteries
The Cemeteries Department is responsible for organising burials in the council's seven municipal cemeteries and grounds maintenance for three closed Churchyards, keeping records dating back well over one hundred years.
Lancaster City Council is responsible for the administration and maintenance of seven cemeteries within the district. The council is not responsible however, for the district's crematorium, which is the operated by a private company. Details are as follows:
Cemeteries
Carnforth
Hale Carr Lane (including its woodland section)
Morecambe
Skerton
Lancaster
Scotforth
Torrisholme Cemetery (including its woodland section)
For the latest information on improvements we have been making to our cemeteries, please visit our What's New page.
Lancaster and Morecambe Crematorium
(Also Known as Torrisholme Crematorium)
This Crematorium is run by Dignity Funerals and not by Lancaster City Council, for full contact details and location information please visit:
www.dignityfunerals.co.uk
Public Information Notice: Lancaster and Morecambe Crematorium location using Google and Google Maps
Google maps clearly shows the wrong location for Lancaster and Morecambe Crematorium, even though the postal address is correctly stated. Unfortunately this map has been generated by a Google maps user and not by Lancaster City Council, and we have no way of editing or otherwise correcting the map details, nor is there any way to contact the map's author. Our cemeteries staff have previously contacted Google about this issue, but Google have so far failed to correct the mistake.
We recommend contacting Dignity Funerals to confirm location details.
Grounds Maintenance Standards
As part of our continued commitments to improvements in grounds maintenance, we produce and annually review our Cemeteries Grounds Maintenance Plan, a copy of this document is available on this page.
Cemeteries User & Visitor Survey
Using new powers made available to local authorities under the Clean Neighbourhoods & Environment Act 2005, cemetery management are considering introducing a ban on dogs within cemeteries
We know this can be an emotive topic and that irresponsible dog owners cause problems in all the Council cemeteries but especially Morecambe & Torrisholme cemeteries.
Current local cemetery rules and regulations require dogs to be on a lead but this is widely ignored. Many dog owners are visiting the cemeteries purely to exercise their dogs.
We always welcome your views.
Cemeteries Task Group
The Cemeteries Task Group have undertaken a detailed review of the cemeteries service over a 12 month period from June 2005. Follow the Cemeteries Task Group link for further information.
Cemeteries Heritage & Environment Day - 12th July 2008
The Heritage and Environment Day was a great success, despite the poor summer weather. Follow the link above for full details of the data and photos taken during the event.