Hammerton's Funeral Directors, Rotherham

Hammerton's Funeral Directors' Goldthorpe branch, at 96 Barnsley Road, belongs to a business with roots stretching back to 1770, making it one of the older names in the Funeral Partners Limited group, which now spans 297 branches nationwide. The branch serves Goldthorpe and the wider Rotherham area, working alongside its sister branch in Barnsley, and is a five-minute walk from Goldthorpe railway station.

The team arranges cremations, burials, green and woodland funerals, unattended (direct) cremations and repatriation, together with memorial masonry, coffin selection, ashes caskets and urns, floral tributes, orders of service, and an online funeral notices and tributes platform. A published standardised price list is available, and the branch is a member of the National Association of Funeral Directors.

Facilities include three private chapels of rest and on-site parking for two to three cars, with additional public parking nearby; the branch is wheelchair accessible with a disabled toilet. Services are arranged for many different cultures and faiths as well as those with no religious beliefs, home visits are offered by appointment, and the branch is reachable by phone 24 hours a day; office hours are Monday to Friday, 10am to 4pm.