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Monday 7:30am - 5:30pm Tuesday 7:30am - 5:30pm Wednesday 7:30am - 5:30pm Thursday 7:30am - 5:30pm Friday 7:30am - 5:30pm Saturday 7:30am - 5:30pm Sunday 7:30am - 5:30pm

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Bristol Memorial Woodlands is a 100-acre cemetery near Thornbury, offering environmentally-friendly woodland burials where trees and wild flowers are planted around plots to create a nature reserve managed by a charitable trust for future generations. Bristol Memorial Woodlands is a 100-acre cemetery near Thornbury, offering environmentally-friendly woodland burials where trees and wild flowers are planted around plots to create a nature reserve for future generations. Also encompassing a chapel and reception rooms it is managed by a charitable trust and provides families with a location for unhurried, bespoke funerals for loved ones.

19/12/2025

As the festive season approaches, we kindly remind Plot Owners of the Trust’s terms and conditions regarding decorations and mementos.

Our team will carry out the annual post-12th-night sweep on 6 January, removing Christmas items and all prohibited items as instructed by the Trust. Any valuable items collected will be placed respectfully in designated areas, but we cannot take responsibility for lost or damaged belongings.

If this may cause distress, please remove your items before 6 January.

Thank you for helping us care for the woodland.

20/11/2025

Finding a serene place, where loved ones can visit for generations to come, is incredibly important to our families. Here are Susan’s reasons for choosing Bristol Memorial Woodlands

15/11/2025

Our hospitality manager Becks was delighted to capture this image of a rainbow appearing over the woodlands - a touching symbol of comfort to bring solace to families and friends.

12/11/2025

Funeral Director Steve Begbie-Dilks and health psychologist Mirielle Herbert Hayden, who runs our end-of-life seminars represented us at the Forest Green Rovers Football Club Partners event. We are proud to be engaging with the FGR community and fanbase.
They were able to catch up with Chairman Dale Vince and Manager Robbie Savage. Great discussions on football and green issues, including environmentally friendly burials.

11/11/2025

We will remember them.

17/10/2025

A peaceful moment among the apple trees 🍎🦌
Team member Abbie captured this serene scene of deer quietly grazing beneath apple trees at Memorial Woodlands.

10/10/2025

Your mind deserves the same care as your body.

This let’s talk openly, support one another and spread love and awareness for mental wellbeing.

26/09/2025

Next month, Sunday 26th October, we will gather for a Candlelit Service on All Souls’ Day🕯️

This moving tribute offers a chance to remember and honour our cherished loved ones. All are warmly invited to join us in reflection and remembrance.

The service will begin promptly at 6:00pm, so please arrive from 5:15pm.

Find full details on our website: https://www.memorialwoodlands.com/events-and-training/

16/09/2025

Despite the torrential rain and stormy skies, the Glimmer of Light gathering on Sunday was truly moving.

Forty-two people joined us where, alongside Sunflowers Su***de Support, we shared tea, coffee, biscuits and conversation in the Georgian Reception Rooms before coming together in the Chapel for the candlelight service. Each family lit a candle in memory of their loved one lost to su***de.

We’re so grateful to everyone who joined us and to those who supported behind the scenes to make this special evening possible 🌙

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12/09/2025

Just a gentle reminder to register your place for Glimmer of Light 2025, taking place here at Bristol Memorial Woodlands this Sunday 14 September 🌟

This annual gathering, created by our friends at Sunflowers Su***de Support, offers families affected by su***de a peaceful space to come together, reflect, and honour the memory of loved ones.

Spaces are free but do need to be booked in advance: https://sunflowerssu***desupport.beaconforms.com/form/1471e178

08/09/2025

We are honoured to host Glimmer of Light 2025, the flagship event from local charity Sunflowers Su***de Support, here at Bristol Memorial Woodlands this weekend on Sunday 14 September 🌿✨

Held each year to mark World Su***de Prevention Day, Glimmer of Light offers families affected by su***de a space to come together, reflect, and remember loved ones in a serene and supportive environment.

After the heartfelt gathering of last year, we look forward to once again welcoming our community into the peaceful surroundings of the Woodlands.

Booking is essential so please register at https://sunflowerssu***desupport.beaconforms.com/form/1471e178

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Alveston
BS353TA

Opening Hours

Monday	7:30am - 5:30pm
Tuesday	7:30am - 5:30pm
Wednesday	7:30am - 5:30pm
Thursday	7:30am - 5:30pm
Friday	7:30am - 5:30pm
Saturday	7:30am - 5:30pm
Sunday	7:30am - 5:30pm

Website

http://www.memorialwoodlands.com/

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The story of Memorial Woodlands

Christopher Baker, our founder and chairman, has always had a love of trees and when his father passed the land at Earthcott Green to him he began to plant trees.

From the age of about thirty, Christopher began to attend funerals and was disappointed by the accepted norm; the clinical, workman-like funeral directors and impersonal, rushed services. He felt that there had to be a better way to mark a death and realised that he would far rather have a gathering in a private space, be interred in a field and have a tree planted over him.

The solution was concieved with the creation of Memorial Woodlands. Here was a provision where trees could be planted to more than one purpose, where friends and family could pay their respects in a personal and private way and where a life could be celebrated and remembered in a service appropriate to the deceased.