Cemetery development

This is a pretty unexciting picture I agree. But it is the outcome of vital work on one of the village's most important resources, its beautiful, tranquil cemetery. The main gates were no longer aligning because one of the the brick pillars, built more than two decades ago, is now out of true. The solution was steel posts installed just behind the pillars to take the weight of the gates. These projects always seem to take forever. However we are spending other people's money (yours) and we need to ensure that the spec is right and it has been competitively tendered. We are confident this will stand the test of time. 




Meanwhile, those who were associated with the village before their death but are not interred in the cemetery, continue to be commemorated with special brass plaques in our memory arch. This is an imaginative and poignant addition to the memories evoked by reading the headstones in the cemetery itself. I was particularly touched when we received the plaque (bottom right, lower picture) for a one-year-old child who died in 1944. I hope this memorial has helped to ease decades of loss and pain.

 If you wish to have a plaque commissioned and installed contact the clerk of the council Mrs Rosie Davy Hunt for details and costs