Category: Churchyards
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Always the two sides….
On this rainy Easter weekend we went walking in Kent, and came across this lovely rural scene of a church being decorated for Easter Sunday and the start of spring… And then keen to investigate the one Commonwealth War Grave in the churchyard, I went round the back of the church. Here it is… But…
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Halfway to Heaven in Folkestone
Not quite a garden, but this website has done graveyards before so we’ve got form. And besides, this is amazing. It feels so secret and magical, that even the dandelions look as if they are meant to be there. The Baptist Burial Ground in Folkestone has been left as an ‘island’ for more than 100…
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The Labyrinth at All Saints’ Tudeley, Kent
Churchyards may not be traditional gardens but in the context of this website I believe they can count, not least because they are so often havens of wildlife and nature. However, they DO have to contain something man made (apart from bones, of course) and the Churchyard at Tudeley is special because of the turf…