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 […]

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, […]

There’s a great project happening the churchyard of St Swithun’s, Woodbury – which is also where God’s Botanist”, Revd. William Keble Martin, is buried. Looking at the St Swithun’s Churchyard Work Diary from 2020, kept by the church warden and “completed by our wonderful volunteers over the summer”, […]

Today’s press release from the town council is the news about the Sidmouth Town Council Budget – and great news it is for the Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries project and other local community groups: Sidmouth Town Council shows increased commitment to community services with new responsibilities and largest […]

It is a year to the day, when the Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries project held a Public meeting @ Sidmouth Cemetery – on 13th January 2024.  And here’s the poster to prove it! And the upshot of that public meeting was quite a lot: the Herald pointing […]

It’s been quite a year for the Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries project… The new endeavour was ‘officially launched’ at the VGS AGM in November 2023. The next step was developing the Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries website, which was soon ‘proving to be an invaluable starting point’ for the project. Then, following […]

It’s now a good half a year since the last Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries put together its Maytime 2024 newsletter. So, now at Chrsitmastime, here’s a look back over the last six months or so of what the CSC has been up to. The Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries […]

Of late, the Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries social media pages have been featuring links and pages to excellent repositories of information – in particular about the main council-owned cemetery in Sidmouth. Here are a few of those to share: Sidmouth Cemetery | Facebook Sidmouth and District […]