SITE RULES
SITE RULES
It’s really important that all visitors adhere to these on-site rules. Please take the time to read carefully and, for now, please contact us before you visit.
In these early days, access to Primrose Wood is by appointment only, during daylight hours so that we can ensure the gates are open. If you wish to visit the site to see whether Primrose Wood is a suitable burial site for you or someone else, do contact us so that one of our family team can meet and show you around.
As time goes on, we will update these visiting arrangements, with longer days open, and have an online calendar and noticeboard for burial dates so that, if possible, you can avoid planning visits during funerals. If you are on site during a burial, please keep a peaceful, respectful distance. Parking and access will be prioritised given to those attending the service.
1. Please treat the burial ground with care and respect to ensure it is a place for respectful burial, peace and quiet reflection for all.
2. Please check the online calendar and noticeboard for burial dates and, if you can, avoid visits at that time. If you are on site during a burial, please keep a peaceful and respectful distance.
3. Cars and bicycles are only permitted to be used in the parking area and entrance. No vehicles are permitted to stay in the car park overnight. All vehicles including contents are parked at the owner’s risk.
4. Please keep to the pathways around the site. Do not walk on marked burial plots.
5. No flower or wildflower seed may be scattered, or wildflower plugs or bulbs planted on the burial ground unless approved by the PWNBG team who will be establishing non-native wildflowers over the years (many commercially sold wildflower mixes include inappropriate or non-native seeds).
6. No picking of wildflowers or fungi is permitted.
7. No construction of any kind of flower bed is permitted. Please don’t bring soil, peat or compost to the site.
8. No naturally germinated seedlings or flowers apart from bramble, thistle, nettle and ragwort may be cut or removed from plots.
9. No trees or shrubs may be planted or removed except by PWNBG.
10. All visitors shall behave in a law abiding, peaceful and respectful manner. Mobile phones to be switched off or kept on silent whilst on site.
11. No amplified music should be played except during funeral services.
12. Children must be supervised by an adult at all times.
13. Whilst we allow dogs at Primrose Wood, they must always be kept on a short lead to avoid bothering other visitors, disturbing burial plots or disturbing ground nesting birds. Please clear up dog mess and take the waste/bag home with you.
14. Litter bins are provided (not for dog mess) but, where possible, we do ask that you take any rubbish home with you, including plastic wrapping or fixings to floral tributes that extended family or friends may have left on the graves.
15. No marker, monument, fence, or other construction is permitted. No vases, plastic, wrapping, wind chimes, toys, photographs, man-made decorative ornaments/fixings, bird/mammal boxes are permitted on graves and burial plots. Nothing can be hung from or tied to trees or guards. All inappropriate items will be immediately removed.
16. We only allow fresh, native-only flowers without packaging to be placed on the graves. No containers, floral foam or vases are permitted. All flower tributes will be removed seven days after the burial, or earlier if necessary.
17. We take great care to nurture the young trees, but some may fail and, in time, others will require management such as coppicing, pruning - or even thinning when they are too close together. We reserve the right to undertake the appropriate management to ensure PWNBG develops as a thriving woodland site with well-spaced trees, traditional coppice, shrubs, glades, wide rides and narrower paths. This may result in a temporary closure of the site.
18. Picnics within Primrose Wood, over and above a sandwich and beer with a loved one, are by permission from the PWNBG team.
19. We are a no smoking or vaping site. Please refrain from this whilst on the premises.
Note:
We provide disabled parking and mown paths around the site, but due to the nature of the developing woodland and inherently uneven ground, disabled access is limited and we recommend visiting with a friend who can help. However, please do call PWNBG ahead of a planned visit to see how we can help.
There are no toilet facilities on site, so please plan ahead of your visit. If guests are attending a service or celebration at the Tudor Barn at Milden Hall, there are plenty of toilet facilities there.
Please note that, for security, CCTV is in operation on this site day and night.
