Author: JW

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 […]

The issues around managing the Cemetery’s grass have been many over the years – one of them being strimming up at Sidmouth Cemetery, which has meant leaving a lot of long grass cuttings on the ground which doesn’t look good and doesn’t do the flora and fauna that’s […]

One of the purposes of the Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries has been to try and gain some clarity about how the council manages these sites – from rules and regulations, to the management plan for Sidmouth Cemetery, to its policies and indeed its general attitude towards […]

Many of our cemeteries are beautiful outdoor spaces – with these valuable sites offering a treasury of both history and nature, also to be found in the Sid Valley’s cemeteries. Sidmouth Cemetery There is some discussion as to whether the main cemetery in the Valley can be described […]

The Vision Group for Sidmouth is many things – its main focus being ‘the environment’, both the Natural Environment and the Built Environment. The VGS project Friends of Glen Goyle is very much about both enhancing the site’s biodiversity and promoting its fascinating history. And other websites, […]

There’s a great project happening the churchyard of St Swithun’s, Woodbury – which is also where God’s Botanist”, Revd. William Keble Martin, is buried. Looking at the St Swithun’s Churchyard Work Diary from 2020, kept by the church warden and “completed by our wonderful volunteers over the summer”, […]

Today’s press release from the town council is the news about the Sidmouth Town Council Budget – and great news it is for the Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries project and other local community groups: Sidmouth Town Council shows increased commitment to community services with new responsibilities and largest […]