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 […]

Earlier today, the chair of the Town Council’s Environment Cttee presented the Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries working party with a set of very impressive high-visibility vests. Here is Cllr Ian Barlow shaking hands with CSC volunteer Jenny Ware, with some of her colleagues lined up in […]

The trees in Sidmouth Cemetery are beginning to open – coming into flower and coming into leaf. Here are some fine specimens captured by Ed Dolphin from May 2020 – and looking beyond these three trees and at the Cemetery itself, it shows what can […]

There are lots of resources online to help the Cherishing Sidmouth’s Cemeteries project move ahead. And much of these have already been accumulated on the CSC’s ever-expanding website: Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries – A Vision Group for Sidmouth initiative There are some excellent other places to […]

There’s a national project aimed at cherishing our cemeteries and churchyards – and it’s doing well in East Devon: Caring for God’s Acre – in East Budleigh – Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries A year ago, they concluded a specific project – with the results here: Celebrating […]