Finding the right resting place
Every pet is different, and so is every family’s way of honouring them. Our scattering and interment options range from natural woodland settings and open garden areas to dedicated flower beds and shared memorial benches — each one a thoughtful, tended place within Dignity’s grounds. Below you’ll find an overview of each option, to help you find the one that feels like the right fit.
Our options
- Natural Areas
- Formal Areas
- Natural Woodland
- Shared Memorial Bench & Bird Box
Where their ashes become part of something living
Our natural areas offer a gentle, unhurried resting place — open garden spaces where your pet’s ashes are scattered among the grounds, and where approved flower seeds can be sown alongside them if you wish. It’s a quiet, natural way for them to remain part of a landscape that continues to grow.
Because these are shared spaces, individual markers aren’t placed directly within the natural areas — but that doesn’t mean their memory goes unmarked. You have the option to add a personalised hardwood plaque, mounted on one of our Oak Memorial Posts nearby, so there’s still somewhere to go to that feels like theirs.
What’s included
Scattering within our natural areas
Ongoing grounds maintenance
Optional additions
6 x 4″ hardwood marker on an Oak Memorial Post (from £60, plus a memorial licence fee)
A plaque in our Remembrance Walkway
Memorial licence: available in 5, 10, 15 or 20 year periods
A note on the hardwood marker
If you’d like a marker, a 6 x 4″ hardwood plaque can be personalised and mounted on one of our Oak Memorial Posts within the natural areas. You can find full details, including wording options, on our Hardwood Markers page. Please be aware that memorial licence fees are non-refundable if a marker is removed before the licence period ends.
As the ashes are scattered within a shared area, their precise location won’t be known after scattering — but many families find comfort in having a marker nearby, or in creating a tribute for use at home or along our Remembrance Walkway.
Pricing for this option can be found below. If your pet’s cremation is also taking place with us, the cremation fee is added separately. All bookings are subject to our Terms & Conditions.
A marked, tended place that’s theirs to keep
Our formal areas offer a more defined resting place within Dignity’s Garden of Remembrance — spaces where your pet’s ashes are scattered and permanently marked with a personalised slate memorial. It’s a fitting choice for families who want somewhere specific to return to: a spot they can find, and a name they can see.
Included with this option is a 5.5 x 4″ slate memorial, laser-engraved with wording of your choice and either a motif at no extra cost, or a photo for a small additional fee. The memorial licence covers a five-year period, with the option to extend.
What’s included
- Burying your pet’s ashes within one of our formal garden areas
- 5.5 x 4″ personalised slate memorial (motif included; photo engraving from £25)
- Ongoing grounds maintenance
- Memorial rights for 5 years
Optional additions
- Extended memorial licence (available beyond the initial 5 years)
A note on the slate memorial
The slate marker is engraved to your specification — you choose the wording, and we’ll take care of the rest. If you’d like to see examples of finished memorials, we’re happy to show you during a visit.
Pricing for this option can be found below. If your pet’s cremation is also taking place with us, the cremation fee is added separately. All bookings are subject to our Terms & Conditions.
Somewhere quiet, where nature does the remembering
For families drawn to something more natural and unhurried, our woodland offers a different kind of resting place. Your pet’s ashes are buried among the trees, becoming part of a living, tended landscape that changes gently with the seasons. There are no formal plots or precise locations — just the woodland itself, cared for so that it remains a peaceful place to walk through and feel close to them.
A memorial marker isn’t included as standard with this option, but one can be added if you’d like somewhere specific to return to. For families bringing more than one pet’s ashes into the woodland at the same time, a shared communal marker is a meaningful way to hold all their names together — we’d suggest a 12 x 9″ slate memorial for this.
What’s included
- Interment within our natural woodland
- Ongoing woodland husbandry and care
Optional additions
- Memorial marker and licence fee (available in 5, 10, 15 or 20 year periods)
- Communal marker for multiple family pets (12 x 9″ slate recommended)
A note on memorial markers
If you choose to add a marker, please be aware that memorial licence fees are non-refundable if the marker is removed before the licence period ends. If you’re unsure which marker might be right for this setting, we’re happy to talk it through with you during a visit.
Pricing for this option can be found below. If your pet’s cremation is also taking place with us, the cremation fee is added separately. All bookings are subject to our Terms & Conditions.
A place to sit, stay a while, and feel close to them
There’s something quietly fitting about a bench or bird box as a resting place — somewhere that invites you to pause, to be still, and to spend a few moments with your pet’s memory. With this option, your pet’s ashes are scattered around one of our shared memorial benches or bird boxes in the gardens, and a small personalised plaque is affixed to mark that it’s theirs too.
It’s a gentle, unassuming tribute — and one that gives you a specific place to return to within our grounds. If you’re bringing more than one pet’s ashes at the same time, a single shared plaque can be chosen to hold all their names together, and we’ll refund the cost of any additional plaques already included in the entry fees.
What’s included
- Scattering around your chosen memorial bench or bird box
- 4 x 2″ personalised plaque affixed for 5 years
- Bench or bird box and grounds maintenance for 5 years
- Memorial rights for 5 years
Optional additions
- Extended memorial licence (available beyond the initial 5 years)
A note on availability and markers
Benches and bird boxes are subject to availability, so if you have a particular spot in mind it’s worth speaking to us early. As with our other options, memorial licence fees are non-refundable if a plaque is removed before the licence period ends.
Pricing for this option can be found below. If your pet’s cremation is also taking place with us, the cremation fee is added separately. All bookings are subject to our Terms & Conditions.
Resting together - yours and your pet's ashes at Dignity
The idea came from listening to the families who visited us. Again and again, people told us the same thing — that when their own time came, they wanted to be with their pet. It felt like the most natural wish in the world, and yet for most people it simply isn’t possible. In the UK, pet ashes are classified differently to human ashes, which means that most cemeteries and crematoria are unable to accommodate both together.
Dignity is different. We are the first pet crematorium in the UK to obtain permission to scatter and inter both human and pet ashes within our grounds — and we made that happen precisely because we understood how much it mattered.
If this is something you’d like to plan for, you have two options: you can pre-pay for your own entry into our gardens now, or make arrangements for your estate to cover the cost in the future. Pre-paying secures today’s price and protects against future increases — and we can arrange the same for your pet’s ashes at the same time.
There are a few things worth knowing before you make any arrangements. We’re only able to accept human ashes when accompanied by a certificate of cremation from the crematorium. We’re also only able to inter human ashes where the pet they’re joining was individually cremated at Dignity, and whose ashes are either already resting in our grounds or entering at the same time.
If you’d like to talk any of this through, please don’t hesitate to call us on 01252 844572 or get in touch by email — we’re always glad to help.
Burying your ashes with your pet's
- Shared Flower Bed
- Family Flower Bed
A space that belongs to your family, for the long term
The family flower bed is our most intimate option — a small circular bed, created exclusively for your family, where the ashes of your pets and your own can be laid to rest together over the years. It’s a place that grows and changes with the seasons, planted with indigenous plants and tended as part of our grounds, but held entirely in your family’s name for twenty years.
The bed measures approximately one metre in diameter and is planted by Dignity with indigenous species chosen to thrive in our grounds. If you’d prefer to supply your own plants, that’s something we can accommodate for an additional fee. An 18 x 12″ slate memorial is included, engraved with wording of your choice and either a motif at no extra cost or a photograph for a small additional fee — and if you’d rather have several smaller markers in place of the single slate, we can arrange that too.
Entry fees are included for the ashes of up to two humans and five pets, and as with our shared flower bed, all ashes are placed in an approved sealed container, meaning they can be exhumed at a later date if you ever wish to move them.
It’s a choice that asks you to think a little further ahead — and for many families, that’s exactly what makes it feel right.
What’s included
Exclusively dedicated circular flower bed for your family
Entry fees for up to 2 humans and 5 pets
Polished metal urn/s
Indigenous planting, chosen and maintained by Dignity
18 x 12″ personalised slate memorial (motif included; photo engraving from £25)
Ongoing grounds maintenance
Memorial rights for 20 years
Optional additions
Extended memorial licence (available beyond the initial 20 years)
Family-chosen plants in place of indigenous planting (additional fee applies)
Several smaller markers in place of the 18 x 12″ slate (up to the same combined value)
A note on memorials and markers
If you’d like to discuss the memorial options in more detail — including the choice between a single slate and multiple smaller markers — we’re always happy to talk it through. Memorial licence fees are non-refundable if markers are removed before the licence period ends.
Pricing for this option can be found below. If your pet’s cremation is also taking place with us, the cremation fee is added separately. All bookings are subject to our Terms & Conditions.