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 […]

Ian Gregory, chair of the Vision Group for Sidmouth, has the privilege of putting together a monthly piece for the Herald – and this month he focussed on the work happening at Sidmouth Cemetery – and what a difference it’s making! Volunteers transform Sidmouth’s neglected […]

“Clearing up” around Sidmouth Cemetery means “giving growing things a bit of breathing space” – for example, pulling out the bullying three-cornered leek and allowing things like celandine to stretch in the sun. Here’s a photo from this week’s working party by Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries […]

It’s quite impressive how Sidmouth Cemetery has been transformed over the last few weeks – and that’s not the Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries group saying that! Here’s a very positive note sent after the CSC working party session yesterday [Thursday 29th] morning. It’s from a key […]

The Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries website is not only about recording the considerable efforts of the busy volunteers: Working parties – Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries It’s also about recording the personal stories and the growing information about the memorials: Graves and links to records – Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries There […]