Author: JW

Sidbury and Sidmouth cemeteries are basically sited on former meadowland – and something the Cherishing Sidmouth’s Cemeteries project would like to see would be enabling the dormant meadow flowers to flourish through careful management of the dominant grass. There are other notable areas – such […]

One of the main projects at Sidmouth Cemetery is to increase the biodiversity on the site – and in early spring the Sidmouth Scouts lent a hand in cutting back the very invasive bramble which keep pretty much everything else out. In early summer (and […]

The Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries project is very much about marrying ‘the human and the natural’ – both the manmade history and the natural history of these special sites in the Sid Valley. It’s about nature: Cemeteries can be a haven for nature and wildlife as […]

The charity Caring For God’s Acre is keen to celebrate wildlife in our churchyards. Ed Dolphin put together a report on the excellent survey work carried out in the Sid Valley in mid June: Beautiful Burial Grounds and Count On Nature Week have come together, […]

The Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries project was set up, largely because it was felt that the Management Plan for Sidmouth Cemetery isn’t working – as commented late last year, “it has been disastrous, whether you are looking for a wildlife haven or a tidy resting place where families can visit […]

The Devonshire Association likes to visit cemeteries – for example, a visit last year to Plymouth Orthodox Synagogue and its cemetery. The Botany Section is also interested in cemeteries – and also last year it organised a field trip to The Knapp Nature Reserve, Sidmouth – which it noted […]

Sidmouth Cemetery has several graves of members of ‘an important Sidmouth family’ – with its own page on the Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries website: The Cole family – Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries Including a Major General in the Indian service: History of the GRAY and Other Families […]

A lot seems to be happening at Sidmouth Cemetery… Next Thursday morning, Ed Dolphin of the Arboretum will be offering a guided tour of the trees, both native and exotic: A guided tree walk around the Cemetery: 16th May – Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries That’s because […]

The trees in and around Sidmouth Cemetery are looking magnificent. Ed Dolphin, of the Arboretum, has sent in some beautiful photos he took this time four years ago, including: Variegated Tulip Tree: May 2020: Ed Dolphin Trees in leaf and in flower around the Cemetery […]

Last week, the Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries steering group and members of the working party were handed a very welcome piece of kit by the chair of the Town Council’s environment committee: Tabards for Cemetery volunteers – thanks to the Town Council – Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries […]