Huntingdon Town Council

Cemeteries

Applications for interment are usually submitted by undertakers but enquiries, including the purchase of Exclusive Rights of Burial, may be made directly to the Town Clerk's Office (Lesley Rayner) on 388688.

Important Notice
Huntingdon Town Council will undertake an inspection of memorials during the week commencing February 5th 2007 in its cemeteries listed here. This is a necessary procedure aimed at ensuring safety for all visitors to the cemeteries for which we have responsibility.
Inspection and maintenance will be carried out in accordance with ICCM Guidance on the Installation, Inspection, Management and Maintenance of Memorials.
Grave owners are respectfully reminded that they are responsible for their own memorials and are encouraged to take any corrective action necessary before the inspection takes place.
Please contact Huntingdon Town Council and talk to either Lesley Rayner or Dennis Smith if you have any questions about memorial inspections.

Priory Road Cemetery

This Cemetery was first established in the 1850’s and was originally laid out by Robert Hutchinson a well known Architect of the time. It is dominated by a Victorian Chapel which is still available for use in connection with local interments. This Cemetery is both the old "traditional" type which contains memorials of all shapes, sizes and conditions. There is also an area set aside for "lawn" burials where the memorials comprise solely of a headstone. There are no burial plots available at this time.

Primrose Lane Cemetery

This Cemetery is a Lawn Cemetery which was established in November 1982 and allows only for memorials of the simple headstone type. There is an area for the interment of cremated remains in respect of which memorial tablets may be either set flush with the ground or mounted on a memorial wall. There is also a children's section in this Cemetery (for up to age 12) where a little more flexibility is allowed in the type of memorial erected.

North Street Cemetery

This Cemetery was opened in January 1997 and is also a Lawn Cemetery where only headstone memorials are permitted.

Closed Churchyards

Huntingdon Town Council is responsible for maintenance of closed churchyards. Pictured here, St Mary's in the town centre