Losing a loved one is a difficult and emotional experience.
We have arranged a fixed price, value for money funeral service for those who want someone to take care of arrangements for them.
The Wigan and Leigh Residents Funeral Service is handled by professional funeral director partnership of Carl Hogg and Susan Fields Funeral Service with Walkers Funeral Service.
The service is available to anyone who is arranging the funeral of someone who has died whilst residing in the borough of Wigan.
How much is it?
The service is a fixed price so you know exactly what you will need to pay:
- Cremation £2,381.10
- Burial £2,650.10.
(The 2024 national average cost of a funeral is £4,141).
What do you get?
The service will be held at Wigan Crematorium or any of the borough’s nine cemeteries.
It includes:
- Collection of the deceased (from within the borough)
- Use of the funeral director’s chapel of rest (for families where transport is unavailable a collection service is available to visit the chapel of rest by arrangement). Visits to the chapel of rest are available:
- anytime Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm
- by appointment with 24hrs notice for visits Monday to Friday between 5pm and 7pm
- by appointment with 48hrs notice for visits Saturday and Sunday between 10am and 12 noon
- Arranging and supervising the funeral
- Hearse and one following limousine to carry six
- A suitable oak (or similar) finished coffin, with engraved nameplate, interior and appropriate handles
- Cremation costs/burial costs
- Additional costs such as having the clergy of your choice for the crematorium or grave side service.
It does not, however, include discretionary costs such as flowers or an obituary in the paper.
Additional services
The partnership of Carl Hogg and Susan Fields Funeral Service with Walkers Funeral Service can offer further services such as
- Embalming
- Additional limousines
- Obituaries and acknowledgement notices
- Floral tributes
- Memorial inscriptions.
Any extra items requested will incur additional costs and the funeral directors will provide an estimate of these on request.
Contact
Call The partnership of Carl Hogg and Susan Fields Funeral Service with Walkers Funeral Service directly on:
- Carl Hogg and Susan Fields Funeral Service Colliery Cottage, 49 Heath Street, Golborne, WA3 3BS - 01942 318001
- Walkers Funeral Service ours is 217 Ormskirk Road, Newtown, Wigan, WN5 9DN - 01942 231426.
If you wish to use this service please ask for the Wigan and Leigh Residents Funeral Service.