Pete Clarson News Today

Inspired by the original burial mounds or tumuli dating back 5,000 years, the structure in Wiltshire has urns containing peoples ashes.

One of the largest funeral directors in the region is expanding with the opening of its newest funeral home.

The organisation currently has 27 funeral homes across Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire

Burial barrows were originally built in the British Neolithic and Bronze Ages, but now firms are building modern versions and charging thousands to store cremation urns.

A funeral directors has been given the green light to build the first and only modern barrow site in the East Midlands.

Firm expands again with 28th funeral home

A planning application to build the East Midlands’ first barrow site has been submitted by Nottinghamshire independent funeral directors AW Lymn The Family Funeral Service, in partnership with Sacred Stones, the world’s only barrow design and construction business.

It would be the first-ever barrow site in East Midlands in thousands of years

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