CSC Working Party: 10th March 2026

This week’s session is covered by Tim O’Carroll of the CSC working party, with a full report and some wonderful photos:

Caring for Gods Acre have an annual ‘Love your Yew week’ where they ask you to forward before and after photos of the care you have given to a tree. I sent some photos in of a Yew tree we targeted and they are now on their website.

[See Before & After Yews – Caring For God’s Acre – the conservation charity for burial grounds across the UK]

Their next event is Love your Burial Ground Week 6-14th June. 

We have now made quite good progress with the bramble reduction in the Wildlife Improvement Area and have probably achieved our target for this Winter. The remaining patches are deliberately being left for the benefit of wildlife as such a lot of species benefit from their presence: photos below. We are still waiting to see if Cllr Ian Barlow has gleaned any information from EDDC. 

I finish with Spring in the air demonstrated by a Peacock butterfly on the Blackthorn.

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See also: Managing the Cemetery for wildlife – Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries

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