Upminster Cemetery
In 2017 Upminster Cemetery was named Large Cemetery of the Year. The cemetery has received the prestigious Gold Award from London in Bloom judges each year, since 2014 and in 2021 the cemetery earned the title Category Winner.
In 2025 the cemetery won the APSE Cemeteries and Crematoria Innovation Award for its creative approach to the cemetery extension providing an additional 6000 graves. The innovative project prevented the displacement of water into existing graves or surrounding land, including Cranham Marsh, home to the European protected species, the Great Crested Newt.
Upminster Cemetery is popular with families throughout the borough and beyond and frequent visitors find themselves making friends in the adjacent Tea Room, in the grounds of South Essex Crematorium.
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Cemetery Options
Upminster Cemetery was opened in 1902 and is next to the South Essex Crematorium.
• 23 Acres
• Traditional Chapel, seating 50
• South Chapel, South Essex Crematorium, seating 120 (additional fee applies)
• Organ (Please ask your funeral director to arrange for an organist)
• Pre-recorded music
• Ample Parking, in cemetery and in adjacent Crematorium carpark
You can choose to purchase a:
• Traditional Grave
• Lawn Grave
• Mini Headstone Cremated Remains Plot
• Child’s Grave on a dedicated children’s section
• Traditional Cremated Remains Plot (limited)
• Memorial Bench made from environmentally friendly recycled materials (on selected sections)
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