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Caring for God's Acre @caringforgodsacre.bsky.social · 3d

First of our Autumn webinar series Our Digital Ancestors: Tales from Warstone Lane Cemetery will be online on Tuesday 7th October from 2pm to 3pm.

For more info and to book your free ticket visit
www.caringforgodsacre.org.uk/events/webin...

#cfga #memorialrecording #warstonelanecemetery

Volunteers recording inscription on a memorial headstone in Warstone lane Cemetery

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Caring for God's Acre @caringforgodsacre.bsky.social · 7d

UK Fungus Day 4/10/25
British Mycological Society aims to inspire preservation of native fungi and improve scientific knowledge of these unique organisms.
Check out Gary Easton blog www.ukfungusday.co.uk/isthataballerinaoraparrot which you can also find on our CfGA website.
#fungi #ukfungusday #CFGA

Parrot waxcap fungi. Image credit Ellyn Baker

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Caring for God's Acre @caringforgodsacre.bsky.social · 25d

Our Heritage to Inspire project together with Friends of Longden Road Cemetery Shrewsbury is working on identifying unmarked graves of people from the poorer end of Victorian society. With Shropshire Archives volunteers have found names, occupations & family relationships.
#cfga #monumentrecording

People identifying inscriptions on headstones in a cemetery

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Caring for God's Acre @caringforgodsacre.bsky.social · Sep 3

We are also running two local events for Birmingham Heritage Week if you are in the West Midlands (email [email protected] to book).
#bheritageweek #birminghamheritageweek

Victorian Language of the Flowers and other symbolism Tour
St Marys Handsworth
17th September at 2pm

Memorial Photography Workshop
Key Hill Cemetery
13th September at 2pm

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Caring for God's Acre @caringforgodsacre.bsky.social · Sep 3

All four nations of the UK are taking part in European Heritage Open Days in September, with free events coming to a cemetery, churchyard or burial ground near you.
#heritageopendays #OpenDoors #DrysauAgored
#doorsopendays #DOD2025 #LoveHeritageNI #EHOD2025

Eglwys Sant Cynhaiarn St Cynhaearn's Church Ynyscynhaearn

alva old kirkyard and johnstone mausoleum

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Caring for God's Acre @caringforgodsacre.bsky.social · Aug 29

We have seen a similar motif on a memorial in Lauriston Road Jewish Cemetery in London, UK.

Gravestone with Hebrew inscription and a round panel at the top centre. This panel contains a carving of a tree being felled by an axe.

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TalkDeath @talkdeath.bsky.social · Aug 27

Some cemetery symbolism you may or may not have seen before from @gravestonesofnewengland on IG “Many early 19th century gravestones feature willow trees as a symbol of mourning. However, this particular stone has a different take on that..

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Wardsend Cemetery Heritage Park @wardsendcemetery.bsky.social · Aug 28

What a fabulous day yesterday? A big thank you to Sally and all the Don Catchment Rivers Trust team for organising today's BioBlitz. Thanks too to all the groups, stall holders and experts who helped to make it such a special event and to everyone who came.

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Caring for God's Acre @caringforgodsacre.bsky.social · Aug 22

Last call for cutting long grass!
If you manage a small lawn or a meadow this is a reminder to cut long grass if you haven't already & remove arisings to reduce fertility and help next year's flowers.
Any late flowering plants such as Devil's Bit Scabious, just leave that area to allow them to seed

Bumblebee on a Devil's Bit Scabious flower, image credit Phyl Buckley

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Heritage Network @heritagenetwork.bsky.social · Jul 28

@caringforgodsacre.bsky.social needs you! They are looking for volunteers to join them in hay raking and gravestone recording. (No experience needed.)

Find out more on our website. Just scroll down to the volunteering section.
heritagetrustnetwork.org.uk/jobs/

#volunteering #heritagevolunteering

Two people next to a gravestone. They are clearly studying it and the woman is writing something on a clipboard.

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Caring for God's Acre @caringforgodsacre.bsky.social · Aug 9

Last 2 days of Big Butterfly Count!

Big Butterfly Count organised by Butterfly Conservation ends Sunday, why not get out there this weekend

Our Butterfly Spotters Guide is a handy ID guide to your local churchyard or other burial ground bit.ly/butterfly_sp...

#CFGA #butterflies #citizenscience

Pictures of butterflies as part of a butterfly identification guide

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Caring for God's Acre @caringforgodsacre.bsky.social · Aug 1

Time to cut & rake long grass!
God's Acre vols have been cutting & raking long flowery grass in local churchyards & volunteer co-ordinator Alex has scythed outside our office the Sastak building
Thanks to our landlords for letting us manage the area as a meadow
#CFGA #godsacrevolunteers #scything

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Caring for God's Acre @caringforgodsacre.bsky.social · Jul 22

Big Butterfly Count by @savebutterflies.bsky.social from 18 July-10th Aug

Your local burial ground is an ideal place to spot butterflies

How many will you see in 15 minutes? Download guides from Butterfly Conservation

#BigButterflyCount #CitizenScience

Thank you Butterfly Conservation for photos

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Wardsend Cemetery Heritage Park @wardsendcemetery.bsky.social · Jul 21

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A great turnout and welcome sunshine for this morning's butterfly survey.
Butterflies have made something of a recovery this year and this was reflected at Wardsend with 41 recordings and 11 different species.

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Caring for God's Acre @caringforgodsacre.bsky.social · Jul 19

Article by Laura Parker featuring Caring for God's Acre in Country Life - The life that thrives among the dead: How wildlife finds a home in the graveyards and churchyards of Britain the work by Caring for God's Acre.
www.countrylife.co.uk/.../the-life....

#CFGA #CountryLife #nature #environment

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Friends of Key Hill cemetery & Warstone Lane cemetery, B'ham JQ @friends-fkwc.bsky.social · Jul 7

Are you fascinated by the origins of sports & notable figures? Sun 13 July, Discover the story of Major Harry Gem, co-founder of lawn tennis, during a B'ham tour @ 12 noon.
@tennisupdates.bsky.social
@wimbledonltc.bsky.social
@midlandhistory.bsky.social

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/john-baske...

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · Jul 7

"The life that thrives among the dead: How wildlife finds a home in the graveyards and churchyards of Britain"

Country Life explores the rich biodiversity located in historic kirkyards that have lain undisturbed by ploughs and weedkiller-free for generations 👇
www.countrylife.co.uk/nature/the-l...

The life that thrives among the dead: How wildlife finds a home in the graveyards and churchyards of Britain

Home to a veritable ‘Noah’s Ark of species’, thanks to never being ploughed, sprayed or fertilised, our churchyards offer a sacred haven for flora and fauna, says Laura Parker.

www.countrylife.co.uk

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Laura Parker @lauraparker.bsky.social · Jul 2

Churchyards are brilliant places for nature AND people.

Undisturbed + unimproved, they provide habitat for slow worms, rare lichen, orchids + more. And are free for all.

Met amazing ppl for my piece in this week's Country Life. #naturewriting

📷 Getty, Sam Rowley/naturepl.com, Alamy, Jason Bye

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Caring for God's Acre @caringforgodsacre.bsky.social · Jun 25

This week is @insectweek run by @royentsoc and your local burial ground is a great place to #standtallforthesmall and see how many of the UK's 24,000 insect species you can spot, like this Oedemeridae (false blister beetle).

#cfga #nature #environment #insectweek #beetle

False blister beetle on a ox-eye daisy in a cemetery managed for wildlife

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Caring for God's Acre @caringforgodsacre.bsky.social · Jun 19

Over 350 people registered for our webinars during Love Your Burial Ground Week– to watch live or catch up using the recordings for a month. If you missed out, you can see the list here: bit.ly/CCoNwebinars... and there is still time to request the recordings by emailing us on [email protected]

Tour guide accompanied by BSL interpreter in a burial ground in Bridgnorth. A tour attendee sits in a folding camp chair next to the interpreter.

Caring for God's Acre volunteers pose with rakes and scythes in front of a burial ground wall in Clifton

In the foreground a leather gloved hand holds a young slow worm which has been found in the churchyard. Behind you can see gravestones and the church building.

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Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social · Jun 13

A good day for the Churches Count On Nature event at Doddington Church today. Bees, bugs, beetles, butterflies, >80 plant species, and some work still to do on photos and specimens. @caringforgodsacre.bsky.social

Willughby's Leaf-cutter Bee. A medium-sized solitary bee with brown hair, and white, expanded front tarsi.

Leers' Sedge. Image shows a stem bearing clusters of developing fruit.

Outside Doddington Church, with gravestones in the foreground. A group of three people are coming out of the church, one with an insect net.

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Caring for God's Acre @caringforgodsacre.bsky.social · Jun 16

Thank you everyone who took part in Love your Burial Ground Week/Churches Count on Nature 2025!

Nature spotting records are coming in thick and fast from over 400 registered events across the country

#CFGA #LoveYourBurialGroundWeek #ChurchesCountOnNature #churchofengland #churchinwales #arochauk

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Caring for God's Acre @caringforgodsacre.bsky.social · Jun 12

Friday's Love your Burial Ground Week/Churches Count on Nature webinar is Open to All–challenges & opportunities for churchyard accessibility

Link will be sent, or requested at [email protected]

#cfga #loveyourburialgroundweek #churchescountonnature #churchofengland #churchinwales #arochauk

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Caring for God's Acre @caringforgodsacre.bsky.social · Jun 11

Thursday's Love your Burial Ground Week/Churches Count on Nature 2025 webinar is Here be dragons-amphibians & reptiles in burial grounds

Request link to listen to end of June at [email protected]

#CFGA #LoveYourBurialGroundWeek #ChurchesCountOnNature #churchofengland #churchinwales #arochauk

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Caring for God's Acre @caringforgodsacre.bsky.social · Jun 10

Wednesday's Churches Count on Nature2025 webinar is On the ground – practical conservation management in 2 churchyards

A link will be sent if you registered, or request at [email protected]

#CFGA #LoveYourBurialGroundWeek #ChurchesCountOnNature #churchofengland #churchinwales #arochauk

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