Hitchin Cemetery June-July 2025
Hitchin Cemetery June-July 2025 The Friends of Hitchin Cemetery group have been busy with their very popular free tours; the final two were in July as part of The Hitchin Festival. There have been various other visitations and trips of differing sorts, more of which later. The Friday working party, amongst various tasks, have trimmed the grass to highlight graves near the Standhill Road entrance, including those of the Reverends Gainsford (senior and junior). This work fits in with the tone for the older part of the cemetery where meadow regions are surrounded by short mown grass giving a mixture of formal and informal areas. The two Gainsfords were both vicars of Holy Saviour church and the church has recently paid for some plants to enhance the larger of the two graves, working to a design by local author Nic Wilson: her recent series of articles in Gardening World magazine has been on the theme of 'Make a metre matter' and we have been lucky to have her s...