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, including the site-specific The Sid site and the esoteric Sidmouth Solarpunk site, are also interested in exploring both the ‘natural’ and the ‘human’.
The Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries website endeavours to marry ‘the human and the natural’, the manmade history and the natural history of very special sites across the Sid Valley – from council-owned cemeteries to churchyards and smaller graveyards – attempting to explore their different threads and to see how they might intertwine.
Here are a couple of excerpts from the pages of the CSC website – including its Nature:
Cemeteries can be a haven for nature and wildlife as long as they are incorporated thoughtfully.
And its Memorials:
Cemeteries can be a course in art, social and religious history. There were fashions in memorial forms just as there are in everything else, these pages record some interesting examples from Sid Valley graveyards
Here’s an example of nature and memorials coming together – in the front cemetery garden at the Dissenters of Sidmouth – showing that we can enjoy both green spaces and rich heritage at the very heart of town:
There’s more at the ‘back garden’ too. See: Futures Forum: Arboretum @ Dissenter of Sidmouth >>> tree planting Tues 10th November: the history of the garden cemetery
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