LOCAL FEE GUIDE · UPDATED 29 OCTOBER 2026

Find headstone permit fees across Rochdale, Bury, Oldham, Rossendale, Greater Manchester and nearby Lancashire. Choose your area below to see charges for new memorials, additional inscriptions, replacements and kerb surrounds.

Published single-headstone permit fees in this guide. This range includes resident and non-resident rates; it excludes double memorials, kerbs and the cost of the stone itself. Some permits may already be included in the grave purchase.

A guide to additional charges: these cemetery or churchyard fees may apply in addition to our memorial work. We will confirm the applicable charges with the authority before finalising your quotation. Fees can change, and not every charge applies to every job. Older or undated figures are clearly labelled as indicative.

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From 1 April 2026. Headstone rate shown is for a memorial up to 3 ft high.

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Charge and permission to be confirmed.

From 1 April 2026.

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£175 for approved 3 × 2 ft kerbs; £250 for approved 3 × 3 ft kerbs. Full-length kerbs up to 6 × 3 ft and 9 inches high: £500, only on Agecroft plots 3A and 12 and Peel Green plot XX, subject to approval.

From 1 April 2026. £165 up to 600 mm; £210 up to 1.05 m; £260 up to 1.53 m where permitted. St Mary’s Catholic Cemetery, Wardley, has separate diocesan fees.

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Full-length kerbs are not permitted; short kerbs are subject to the council’s dimensions and approval.

2026/27 council schedule. The inscription and replacement charges shown are Grave Owner Authority administration fees for private headstones on graves. Concrete foundations are listed separately at £250. St Joseph’s Catholic Cemetery, Moston, has separate diocesan fees.

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2026 fees: £179 for an ordinary monument and £39 for an additional inscription. Smaller crosses and cremation tablets have different rates. A replacement memorial needs its own approval; a separate replacement rate is not published in the ordinary table.

Manchester and Blackburn diocesan regulations restrict kerbs. A separate faculty may be needed and is not covered by the ordinary fee. Church of England fee guidance.

These Catholic cemeteries have diocesan charges rather than Manchester or Salford council fees. Please contact us to confirm current headstone, inscription, replacement and kerb fees.

For Methodist, Baptist, United Reformed and independent churchyards, fees and permissions must be checked with the individual church. We do not apply Church of England rates to other denominations.

We have not found a reliable published figure for that particular charge. Where an older or undated published figure is available, we label it indicative. An unlisted fee does not mean the work is free of cemetery or churchyard charges.

Send us the cemetery or churchyard name, the grave reference if you have it, and a brief description or photo of the proposed work. We’ll help confirm the requirements.

Guide updated 29 October 2026. These are cemetery or churchyard charges that may be payable in addition to our memorial work, not a quotation. Dates and indicative figures are shown in each section. We confirm applicable fees before finalising your quotation. Grave type, residency, dimensions, cemetery section and permits already paid can affect the total; separate foundation or other authority charges may also apply.