Grave Searches

Contact us to find out whether the person you are looking for is buried at Abney Park and we can search our internal database, or you can use the Abney Unearthed burial and map information here.

Appointments

There is no public access to our office space, so we will be unable to help you if you arrive without making an appointment.

To enable staff enough time to search for the grave, please contact us at least 10 days prior to the day that you wish to visit. If you contact us with short notice we may be unable to help you.

Due to staff commitments, appointments are not available on Tuesdays or Thursdays.

Administrative charges

As a charity we do ask for a £40 fee for a single grave search to help cover our costs (staff time for administration and to carry out the search, appointment time) and to maintain this service. The fee does reduce for more than one search. We are pleased to offer appointments to guide you to the grave location and recommend that we assist you.

If you are unable to visit, photographs can be emailed to you. The fee is £10 for one image of the headstone, £15 for an image of the headstone, a close-up of the epitaph and the surrounding area. Further pricing options are available for more images, please contact us.

We are able to offer concessionary fees - please contact us. It is important to us to provide this service.

Searches

We would recommend searching for graves in autumn or winter when headstones are more visible. Even with a plot number, graves can be very difficult to find. The ground around the graves is often overgrown and very uneven, with low visibility, so it can be unsafe.

Please note:
Grave numbers are in no consecutive order, some grave numbers are not on the plot maps, not all grave numbers are visible on site, not all headstones are are legible and not all of the graves have a headstone. Even with a plot map, a search can be difficult.
Common graves are not often on the plot maps and can be difficult to locate. We are unable to locate any common graves that date prior to 1918.

The Abney Unearthed project is working hard to replace as much missing information as possible by checking every grave, but there are still some gaps in the burial information:
- records for May 1970 – May 1976 and May 1978 – March 1979 are missing
- records for Jan 1935 – March 1936 are missing
- records for Jan 1903 to Jan 1904 are missing

As well as being a memorial park, Abney Park is also a nature reserve and an important site for a variety of plants and wildlife. Should you decide to explore without our help, we ask you to be mindful of this and please take care not to damage the memorials or disturb the vegetation or habitats.

Please note - we are unable to provide plot maps without an appointment.

Please contact Abney Park Trust by email: gravesearch@abneypark.org