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Cemeteries information for Flintshire and places above it in the hierarchy

Flintshire

Flintshire County Council is responsible for the administration of 14 public cemeteries located in "new" Flintshire (created 1996). There is more information about each cemetery on the appropriate parish page. The cemeteries are:

  • Bagillt - New Brighton Road
  • Buckley - Elfed Drive
  • Connah's Quay - Bryn Road
  • Flint - Northop Road & London Road
  • Greenfield - School Lane (No. 1 & No. 2)
  • Hawarden - Cross Tree Lane (No. 1 & No. 2)
  • Holywell - Fron Park Road
  • Hope - Fagl Lane (Bryn-y-Grog & Hope Old)
  • Rhewl (Mostyn) - St. Margaret's
  • Treuddyn - Ffordd-y-Rhos

These cemeteries are open from 8.00 a.m. until sunset; and there are full time Sextons at Connah's Quay, Hawarden and Hope. The burial registers are held at the following address, to which all enquiries should be addressed:

  • Cemeteries Section,
    Administration and Support Services,
    Directorate of Community and Housing,
    Flintshire County Council,
    County Offices,
    Chapel Street,
    Flint,
    Flintshire.
    CH6 5BD

    Tel: 01352 703360

Wales

Gravestone Photographic Resource - an international grave monument directory

The Find-a-Grave (Wales) page gives details of the graves of the rich and famous together with biographical information.

Graveyard Welsh - a guide to interpreting Memorial Inscriptions.

Reading Monumental Inscriptions on the Clwyd FHS site

UK and Ireland

  • The National Burial Index is hosted by findmypast (subscription site).
  • List of Registered Cemeteries from Historic England.
  • Gravestone photograph resource: an "index of the names that appear on photos taken by the Gravestone Photographic Resource Project team". This valuable project provides email copies of any of its collection of grave monument images free of charge on request.
  • The Deceased Online website -"the first central database of statutory burial and cremation registers for the UK and Republic of Ireland" (subscription site).
  • The Church Monuments Society provides photographs of the more interesting monuments (NOT monumental inscriptions) in a limited number of church yards.
  • Index for Burials at Sea - from Ancestry and FindaGrave.