Holly Barrow at The Lost Village of Dode

Nesting in the hillside of a once-deserted Kentish valley in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Holly Barrow provides a place where the ashes of you and your loved ones may rest peacefully for eternity.

Holly Barrow at Dode offers an alternative approach to natural burial grounds, graveyards and crematoria to intern your loved one’s ashes. It is a beautiful, comforting and spiritual setting for a memorial service and as a tranquil resting place for your loved ones.

Barrows are one of the oldest funeral traditions in the UK. Holly Barrow at Dode is a modern interpretation of the ancient long barrows which, after some 5,000 years, are still a revered feature of our landscape today.

Holly Barrow is a unique, subterranean resting place nestled in a hillside. Inside, 400 handcrafted niches have been lovingly created for the interment of ashes.

The sacred space that Holly Barrow occupies in a meadow below an ancient Norman Church is like no other. Once part of the deserted medieval village of Dode, it is a place of stories, focus and reflection, a tiny place but one that is precious in history.

We believe that each of us is unique and each of us have a story to tell – it is here in the silence and beauty of nature that those stories can be told, and memories revered. Here we may return from whence we came, to the good earth that our distant ancestors knew, that same earth that sustained, nourished and loved both them and us. Time is simply immaterial here.

The Lost Village of Dode is a place where everyone is welcome, a special place of understanding, tolerance and healing. It is already a place of literally thousands of individual stories.

We are here for you…please do get in touch to find out more about reserving a niche for the interment of ashes and other memorial services at Dode.