Funeral Directors in Totnes, SW

Totnes is a South Devon town with a funeral trade that leans toward natural and environmentally minded burial. Every one of the 5 funeral directors on this page offers green or natural burial, and two of them are built around it. Direct cremation is also available at 4. Several of the businesses here serve families well beyond the town, across the South Hams and into Torbay.

The Green Funeral Company began in 1999 under Rupert Callender and calls itself the original environmental undertaker. It is run by a small team of 2 and works with natural burial sites including Sharpham, offering environmentally friendly coffins, shrouds and biodegradable urns. Heart & Soul Funerals is an independent company in Buckfastleigh and Totnes, with a funeral home and ceremony hall called Riverstone beside the River Dart. A stone barn can host services, and families can choose natural burial, services in places of worship, home or outdoor funerals, and attended or unattended cremation. It is a member of NAFD or SAIF.

The other three are more traditional in shape. South Hams Family Funerals, led by Susi Glaister, is an independent family-run funeral director serving Totnes, Dartmouth, Kingsbridge and Salcombe, with a single point of contact for each family. Allwood Funeral Services is family run and independent, based in Totnes, and serves South Devon, the South Hams, Torbay and Newton Abbot. It offers a chapel of rest where families can spend time with a loved one before the service, and can supply memorial masonry. Hallett and Perring, Co-op Funeralcare has a funeral director and 2 funeral arrangers in the town.