The Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries working party have been busy over the months up at Sidmouth Cemetery – not only hefting huge amounts of bramble and turf to reveal hidden graves, but also delicately cutting back both wild and ornamental flowering shrubs to reveal some hidden […]

It has been promised for some time that new signage for Sidmouth Cemetery would be ‘coming soon’ – as per a recent post: “There are now considerable efforts underway to bring in clear and helpful replacement signs at the entrances to the Cemetery, which will […]

These pages often return to Arnos Vale Cemetery: an inspiration lying in the heart of Bristol. As a recent piece says, it is the South West’s oldest garden cemetery – and demonstrates that cemeteries can be beautiful outdoor spaces. As the piece goes on to say, this wonderful place is also a […]

The volunteer members of the Cherishing Sidmouth working party Cemeteries are a very active group indeed. One of their number, Liz Dicker, has penned a piece for the Sid Vale Associations’ spring 2025 magazine on “How Sidmouth got its cemetery” – which is now lodged, […]

May is a lovely time of year as colour erupts out of the fresh green – and so it’s happening at the Cemetery. Here are some splendid photos taken over the weekend by one of the members of the Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries project working party. […]

The Arnos Vale Cemetery in the heart of Bristol is the South West’s oldest garden cemetery – and demonstrates that cemeteries can be beautiful outdoor spaces. This wonderful place is also a showcase for how we can be properly managing churchyards and cemeteries. A member of the […]

Until recently, when it comes to controlling dogs at Sidmouth Cemetery, there has been some rather confusing signage. There are now considerable efforts underway to bring in clear and helpful replacement signs at the entrances to the Cemetery, which will focus on asking dog owners to pick […]

A recent post on the CSC social media pages shared a piece from BBC Devon from back in January last year, when the group was launched, highlighting that “Sidmouth cemetery is to become a wildlife haven”.  Although the accompanying picture showed clumps of very bio-undiverse three-cornered leek(!) […]

There have been further discoveries at Sidmouth Cemetery, with volunteers from the Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries working party endeavouring to, often literally, unearth hidden graves in the older areas. In the section on the CSC website under Memorials there are several separate webpages for individual graves […]

We’ve now had over a year of CSC working party sessions – and not only can we see the results of the work (as given on these news pages) but we can also appreciate how these results have come about. Members of the Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries project […]