Notice is hereby given that representations have been made to Her Majesty in Council by the Secretary of State for Justice that, subject to the exceptions listed below, burials should be discontinued in the following places of burial and that Her Majesty in Council was pleased on 29th September 2021 to order that such representations be taken into account by a Committee of the Privy Council on 10th November 2021

1) St. Helen’s Churchyard, Little Cawthorpe, Lincolnshire;

2) Cross Stone Cemetery (St Paul), Todmorden, Leeds;

3) St John the Evangelist Churchyard, Merrow, Guildford, Surrey.

The exceptions are that –

a) in the places numbered 2 and 3 above, in any vault or walled grave in the churchyards, burial may be allowed but every coffin buried in such vault or grave must be separately enclosed by stonework or brickwork properly cemented;

b) in all places numbered above, in any existing earthen grave in the churchyards, the burial may be allowed of any member of the family of the person or persons previously buried in that grave, but no part of the coffin containing the body shall be less than one metre below the level of the surface of the ground adjoining the grave; and

c) in the places numbered 2 and 3 above, in any grave space in which no interment has previously taken place, the burial may be allowed of any person for whom or of any member of a family for which that grave space has been reserved and appropriated, with the exclusive right of burial there, but no part of the coffin containing the body shall be less than one metre below the level of the surface of the ground adjoining the grave.