Hitchin Cemetery October to December 2022
Hitchin Cemetery October to December 2022 Having been inspected by an assessor earlier in the year, in October the Friends of Hitchin Cemetery were delighted to receive an award recognising their work for the community and the environment from the Council for the Protection of Rural England. This helps us spread the word that the cemetery is an important asset to the Hitchin area. (Apologies to Hilary who is missing from the Friends photo). The final months of the year are still busy one for the volunteers with lots of jobs to do, tending graves and borders and especially hedge trimming now that the bird nesting season is well and truly finished. This year the bushes are a little easier to cut as we now have our very own hedge trimmer paid for by the developers of the Bethel Court houses. We have more of the developers grant left over to spend on tools, bird boxes and bat boxes which we look forward to installing over the coming months. Autumn interest in the cemetery included de