13 funeral directors with 28 branches in Wigan Council’s area, with published prices where they exist. Free listing, nobody pays to appear.
Compiled 10 August 2026. Last updated 10 August 2026.
Direct cremation in Wigan: from £1,050
A direct cremation is a cremation with no service and no mourners present. The funeral director collects the person who has died, arranges the cremation at a time set by the crematorium, and returns the ashes to you. You can hold a memorial separately, whenever and wherever you want.
The crematorium charges its own fee on top of the funeral director’s charges, £906 locally. Some firms include it in the price below and some add it, so check which applies before you compare two figures.
No published prices: R. Banks & Son (Funerals) Ltd, Sue Gibbons Funeral Service, Alan Jones Funeral Directors Ltd, Unsworth's Funeral Service Ltd, Walker's Funeral Service, Co-op Funeralcare, Wigan (Linley House), Middleton & Wood Funeral Directors (Ince), Middleton & Wood Funeral Directors (Hindley), W. Banks of Orrell Funeral Directors, T. & M. E. Walsh Funeral Directors.
Wigan and Leigh Residents Funeral Service
A fixed-price simple funeral for Wigan Borough residents, delivered by a partnership of two named funeral directors.
Fixed price, cremation
£2,381.10
Fixed price, burial
£2,650.10
The council states the price is fixed and includes collection, chapel of rest, arrangement and supervision, hearse and limousine, coffin, and the cremation or burial cost. Discretionary items such as flowers cost extra.
Delivered by Carl Hogg and Susan Fields Funeral Service and Walker's Funeral Service, listed below.
Source: Wigan Council · Last verified 10 August 2026
Every funeral director in Wigan
R. Banks & Son (Funerals) Ltd
Trading since 1921
Independent
The largest independent in the borough by branch count, trading since 1921, with nine branches all inside Wigan Borough.
A third-generation family business trading in Wigan since 1936, with its own monumental masonry works. Office hours Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 6pm, with walk-ins accepted. Registered as Varty's Funeral Directors Limited, company number 11985310.
Monumental works (Delphaven) – Delphaven, Warrington Road, Ince, Wigan, WN3 4QG · 01942 866395Masonry works opposite Ince Cemetery. Not a funeral arranging office.
Published prices
Attended funeral (funeral director’s charges)
£3,450
Direct cremation (unattended)
£1,900
Unattended burial
£954
Local cremation fee (paid to the crematorium)
£906
Local burial fee (paid to the council)
£1,075
Attended funeral £3,450 covers the funeral director's charges only, itemised as arrangements £1,650, collection and transport £250, care of the deceased £600, oak veneer coffin £350, viewing £1 and hearse £600. The price list file is named 2024 and was uploaded in July 2025, so these figures may predate the April 2026 fee year – check with the firm before relying on them.
Attended funeral £2,714 covers the funeral director's charges only, itemised as arrangements £995, collection and transport £100, care of the deceased £495, veneered oak coffin £598, viewing £1 and hearse £525. The price list states the local burial fee as a range, £365 to £910, so no single figure is shown. The price list carries no date, so confirm current prices with the firm.
Established 2018 and a member of the National Association of Funeral Directors. Office hours Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm, Saturday by appointment.
Branches in Wigan (2)
Head office (Sterling House) – Sterling House, 2 Park Street, Poolstock, Wigan, WN3 5HE · 01942 820290
St Pauls Avenue branch – 34 St Pauls Avenue, Wigan, WN3 5LL · 01942 820290
Published prices
No prices published. Ask the branch for its price list.
The firm's own website separately quotes unattended funerals at £1,495 to £1,695 and cremation and burial services from £3,550 – that is website copy rather than price list line items, so treat it as indicative and ask for the full list.
Independent and family owned, with its first funeral home opened in May 1993.
Branches in Wigan (3)
Hindley Green – 45 Leigh Road, Hindley Green, Wigan, WN2 4SZ · 01942 525980The phone number and the Hindley Green base come from the firm's own site.
LeighThis branch is confirmed on the firm's own site, but its street address and direct phone number are not published there. If you want to reach this branch, call Unsworth's Hindley Green number above and ask to be put through.
Atherton
Published prices
No prices published. Ask the branch for its price list.
No standardised price list appears on the firm's own site. Ask the firm directly for a copy.
One of the two firms named by Wigan Council as a provider of the Wigan and Leigh Residents Funeral Service.
Branches in Wigan (2)
Golborne (Colliery Cottage) – Colliery Cottage, 49 Heath Street, Golborne, WA3 3BS · 01942 318001Golborne is in Wigan Borough despite the Warrington postal address. Wigan Council's residents' funeral service page publishes the same address and phone.
Winstanley (Holmes House) – Holmes House, The Winstanley Centre, Holmes House Avenue, Winstanley, Wigan, WN3 6JA · 01942 365358
Published prices
Attended funeral (funeral director’s charges)
£2,250
Direct cremation (unattended)
£1,050
Unattended burial
£1,250
Local burial fee (paid to the council)
£1,110
Attended funeral £2,250 and unattended burial £1,250 cover the funeral director's charges only. The price list gives the local cremation fee as a range, £550 to £1,044, so no single figure is shown. The firm's homepage advertises direct cremation at £925, but its standardised price list page – the document firms are required to publish and keep current – states £1,050. Budget for £1,050 and ask the firm directly whether the £925 offer still applies. The price list carries no date, so confirm current prices with the firm.
One of the two firms named by Wigan Council as a provider of the Wigan and Leigh Residents Funeral Service. Also delivers a comparable scheme in St Helens.
Where to find them
Newtown, Wigan – 217 Ormskirk Road, Newtown, Wigan, WN5 9DN · 01942 231426Full address taken from Wigan Council's own residents' funeral service page. The firm's own site names the Wigan premises and gives the same phone number without printing the street address.
Published prices
No prices published. Ask the branch for its price list.
No standardised price list appears on the firm's own site. The firm does deliver the council's residents' funeral scheme at the council-published fixed prices shown above. Ask the firm directly for a copy of its general price list.
A second Co-op Funeralcare branch appears in Co-op's own URL structure at Pemberton (WN5 8AX, 788-790 Ormskirk Road).
Where to find them
Linley House, Gidlow Lane – Linley House, 177 Gidlow Lane, Wigan, WN6 7BP · 01942 825554The branch name, town and postcode come from Co-op's own branch URL.
Published prices
No prices published. Ask the branch for its price list.
Co-op publishes branch-level standardised price lists, but this branch's figures are not shown. Ask the branch for a copy of its price list.
Trades under an acquired local family name. The shopfront branding does not signal the Dignity ownership.
Where to find them
Egerton House, Ince – Egerton House, Rosebridge Way, Ince, Wigan, WN1 3DG Dignity publishes the branch address but no branch phone number, only its group 24-hour line, 0800 456 1047.
Published prices
No prices published. Ask the branch for its price list.
Dignity publishes branch-level standardised price lists, but this branch's figures are not shown. Ask the branch for a copy of its price list.
The second Middleton & Wood premises in the borough.
Where to find them
Borsdane House, Hindley – Borsdane House, Market Street, Hindley, Wigan, WN2 3AE No branch phone number published. Dignity's group line is 0800 456 1047.
Published prices
No prices published. Ask the branch for its price list.
Dignity publishes branch-level standardised price lists, but this branch's figures are not shown.
Owned by Dignity Funerals and trading under a local family name. This is a separate business from R. Banks & Son (Funerals) Ltd, the independent listed above.
Where to find them
Sefton Villa, Orrell – Sefton Villa, Sefton Road, Orrell, Wigan, WN5 8UP No branch phone number published. Dignity's group line is 0800 456 1047.
Published prices
No prices published. Ask the branch for its price list.
Dignity publishes branch-level standardised price lists, but this branch's figures are not shown. Ask the branch for a copy.
Every price here comes from the firm’s own published price list or the council’s own published fees, with a link to the source and the date it was last verified. Where a firm publishes no price, we say so instead of estimating. No listing is paid for and none can be bought.
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