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We have a record of every burial and cremation held at Chelmsford Crematorium.
If you want to find a record, you will need to provide:
We will complete the search and respond to your enquiry as soon as possible.
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We are happy to carry out one or two record searches for you, free of charge. However, if you are researching your family history and would like a number of searches, you will need to pay a £25 fee per search.
If you would like to carry out a search of our records yourself, you will need to contact us to arrange a date and time.
We maintain a number of closed cemeteries, which involves:
cutting grass
making safe any loose or fallen gravestones
cleaning graffiti
general maintenance
The closed cemeteries that we maintain are:
Holy Trinity, Springfield
New London Road Cemetery
Rectory Lane Churchyard
St John's Churchyard, Moulsham Street
St Mary's Churchyard, Great Baddow
St Mary's Churchyard, Widford
The Cathedral Church of St Mary, St Peter and St Cedd
We hold some records for the burials at the New London Road Cemetery. For information on burials in other cemeteries, you need to contact the Essex Records Office.
We are responsible for maintaining:
the Hoffmann Memorial, in Writtle Road Cemetery
the memorial in front of the Civic Centre, in Duke Street
the memorial in Bell Meadow, next to Bellmead
If you have any enquires about the war memorials that we maintain, contact us.
Chelmsford War Memorials holds details of military personnel and civilians with Chelmsford connections who lost their lives in:
the First World War (1914 to 1918)
the Second World War (1939 to 1945)
operations in Afghanistan (2004 to 2014)
01245 605630
Chelmsford Cemetery and CrematoriumWrittle RoadChelmsfordEssexCM1 3BL
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