Arranging a burial

To arrange a burial, buy a lair, or to erect and maintain a monument or plaque:

• Email cemeteries.admin@midlothian.gov.uk
• or call 0131 561 5280
• Burial ground charges

Funeral directors and stonemasons

• List of funeral directors and memorial stonemasons

Commemorative seats and memorial trees

To install a commemorative seat or plant a memorial tree, email Neil Symington in the Landscape and Countryside office.

Note that we only accept bench and memorial applications from October to February.

Grave decorations

We may remove flowers and artefacts 14 days after the burial.  If you would like to keep them, please arrange to remove them before this. We can only hold them at the bothy or houff for another 14 days.

Enquiries

• For all other enquiries about a burial in a Council cemetery or woodland, including buying a lair, email cemeteries.admin@midlothian.gov.uk.
• If your enquiry is about the management or maintenance of a cemetery, email commercial.services@midlothian.gov.uk.