Notice is hereby given that representations have been made to Her Majesty in Council by the Secretary of State for Justice that burials should be discontinued in the following places of burial and that Her Majesty in Council was pleased on 12th February 2020 to order that such representations be taken into account by a Committee of the Privy Council on 25th March 2020.

1) The Ascension Burial Ground, All Souls Lane, Huntington Road, Cambridge;

2) Tydd St Giles Church, Church Lane, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire;

3) St Michael and All Angels’ Church, Leafield, Witney, Oxfordshire;

4) All Saints Church, Vicarage Road, West Sussex;

5) Old St Mark’s Churchyard, Low Moor, Bradford, West Yorkshire;

6) All Saints Churchyard, Pitsford, Northamptonshire;

7) St Martin of Tours Churchyard, Eynsford, Rochester, Kent;

8) St John the Baptist Church, Hythe, Winchester, Hampshire;

The exceptions are that:-

(a) in any vault or walled grave in the churchyard, burial may be allowed but every coffin in such vault or grave must be separately enclosed by stonework or brick work properly cemented;

(b) in any existing earthen grave in the churchyard, the burial may be allowed of the body 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 any grave space in which no interment has previously taken place, the burial may be allowed of any person for whom, or any member of the 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.