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 […]

The volunteers of the Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries might have been doing a lot of hard rough work – for example, when raking up the strimmings at Sidmouth Cemetery or when having to hack their way through the brambles when uncovering family graves in the Cemetery: […]

The History pages of the Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries website are full of fascinating information collected and put together by members of the CSC project. For example: In 1860, on the 16th June, the headlines in the Western Times proclaimed ‘CHURCHYARD DESECRATION AT SIDMOUTH: ANCESTORS’ BONES SOLD FOR MANURE!! COMMISSION OF INQUIRY ‘ … […]

The Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries hit the front page a year ago, when the Herald covered a public meeting hearing concerns about the maintenance of Sidmouth Cemetery which launched the project. A year on, and again the main feature of the paper is what the CSC group is […]

THE VOLUNTEER TEAM AT WORK We are still a little early to see trees in leaf and in flower around Sidmouth Cemetery, although spring flowers are popping up around the Cemetery especially following the planting of woodland bulbs by the volunteers of the CSC working party late last summer. Because […]

The issues around managing the Cemetery’s grass have been many over the years – one of them being strimming up at Sidmouth Cemetery, which has meant leaving a lot of long grass cuttings on the ground which doesn’t look good and doesn’t do the flora and fauna that’s […]

How can we best show respect for the places where people’s loved ones have been laid to rest? There will be many opinions about how to do this thoughtfully and without causing distress, but perhaps all of us can agree that stealing things is the […]

One of the purposes of the Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries has been to try and gain some clarity about how the council manages these sites – from rules and regulations, to the management plan for Sidmouth Cemetery, to its policies and indeed its general attitude towards […]

Many of our cemeteries are beautiful outdoor spaces – with these valuable sites offering a treasury of both history and nature, also to be found in the Sid Valley’s cemeteries. Sidmouth Cemetery There is some discussion as to whether the main cemetery in the Valley can be described […]