Author: JW

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 […]

It is a year to the day, when the Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries project held a Public meeting @ Sidmouth Cemetery – on 13th January 2024.  And here’s the poster to prove it! And the upshot of that public meeting was quite a lot: the Herald pointing […]

It’s been quite a year for the Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries project… The new endeavour was ‘officially launched’ at the VGS AGM in November 2023. The next step was developing the Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries website, which was soon ‘proving to be an invaluable starting point’ for the project. Then, following […]

It’s now a good half a year since the last Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries put together its Maytime 2024 newsletter. So, now at Chrsitmastime, here’s a look back over the last six months or so of what the CSC has been up to. The Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries […]

Of late, the Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries social media pages have been featuring links and pages to excellent repositories of information – in particular about the main council-owned cemetery in Sidmouth. Here are a few of those to share: Sidmouth Cemetery | Facebook Sidmouth and District […]

A lot of people – and a lot of notable and famous people – retired to Sidmouth and so many of them are now resting in peace in the main cemetery. Many of their resting places are being rediscovered by the Cherishing Sidmouth’s Cemeteries volunteers […]

One of the tasks the Cherishing Sidmouth’s Cemeteries working party has set itself has been to uncover many of the graves at the main cemetery in Sidmouth – not only as part of the wider remit of ‘managing’ the site, but also very much in […]

Over this month, the volunteers of the Cherishing Sidmouth’s Cemeteries have been uncovering several family graves in Sidmouth Cemetery. A fortnight ago it was The Barratts, a tailoring family whose graves were cleared of vegetation. Last week it was the grave of the former Manor […]

Back in 2011, the Herald’s chief reporter Diana Bowerman put together a fascinating piece for the Herald on The Barratt family – master tailors in Sidmouth. At the last session of the CSC working party, volunteers managed to uncover five separate Barratt burial plots in […]