Author: JW

May is a lovely time of year as colour erupts out of the fresh green – and so it’s happening at the Cemetery. Here are some splendid photos taken over the weekend by one of the members of the Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries project working party. […]

The Arnos Vale Cemetery in the heart of Bristol is the South West’s oldest garden cemetery – and demonstrates that cemeteries can be beautiful outdoor spaces. This wonderful place is also a showcase for how we can be properly managing churchyards and cemeteries. A member of the […]

Until recently, when it comes to controlling dogs at Sidmouth Cemetery, there has been some rather confusing signage. There are now considerable efforts underway to bring in clear and helpful replacement signs at the entrances to the Cemetery, which will focus on asking dog owners to pick […]

A recent post on the CSC social media pages shared a piece from BBC Devon from back in January last year, when the group was launched, highlighting that “Sidmouth cemetery is to become a wildlife haven”.  Although the accompanying picture showed clumps of very bio-undiverse three-cornered leek(!) […]

There have been further discoveries at Sidmouth Cemetery, with volunteers from the Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries working party endeavouring to, often literally, unearth hidden graves in the older areas. In the section on the CSC website under Memorials there are several separate webpages for individual graves […]

We’ve now had over a year of CSC working party sessions – and not only can we see the results of the work (as given on these news pages) but we can also appreciate how these results have come about. Members of the Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries project […]

The volunteers of the Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries might have been doing a lot of hard rough work – for example, when raking up the strimmings at Sidmouth Cemetery or when having to hack their way through the brambles when uncovering family graves in the Cemetery: […]

The History pages of the Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries website are full of fascinating information collected and put together by members of the CSC project. For example: In 1860, on the 16th June, the headlines in the Western Times proclaimed ‘CHURCHYARD DESECRATION AT SIDMOUTH: ANCESTORS’ BONES SOLD FOR MANURE!! COMMISSION OF INQUIRY ‘ … […]

The Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries hit the front page a year ago, when the Herald covered a public meeting hearing concerns about the maintenance of Sidmouth Cemetery which launched the project. A year on, and again the main feature of the paper is what the CSC group is […]

THE VOLUNTEER TEAM AT WORK We are still a little early to see trees in leaf and in flower around Sidmouth Cemetery, although spring flowers are popping up around the Cemetery especially following the planting of woodland bulbs by the volunteers of the CSC working party late last summer. Because […]