Churches, parish councils and community grounds in Earlswood

Churchyard grass cutting in Earlswood

Careful mowing and strimming for Earlswood churchyards, community grounds and green spaces.

St John’s church stands on a greensand knoll above Earlswood Common, which the council’s draft appraisal describes as the last high ground before the flat clay plain of the Weald. It was first built in 1843, then largely rebuilt over six years after 1889 to a design by the architect of Truro Cathedral, with the new spire going up in 1895. Churchyard grass cutting in Earlswood, there or anywhere like it, needs patience and care.

We work for churches, councils and community groups, to an existing specification or one we write together. Mowing goes slowly round old stones, paths are kept clear for funerals and visitors, and wildflower areas can be left long until late summer. The same team comes each time.

Churchyard grass cutting among holly, limes and Scots pines

The appraisal singles out the Scots pines as the most striking feature of St John’s churchyard, with an avenue of limes before the west door and a holly hedge around the church. The flint boundary wall dates from 1867. Each of those shapes the churchyard maintenance. Needles and lime leaves need clearing from paths in autumn. Holly is cut carefully by hand. Mowers stay clear of the wall and of fragile memorials, and we strim round stones by hand. We don’t touch the trees: in a conservation area tree work needs six weeks’ notice to the council, and it’s an arborist’s job anyway.

Grass cutting contracts for Earlswood’s community spaces

A lot of Earlswood’s open space is the common itself, which the borough council manages. Alongside that there are other pieces of ground: church grounds, verges, greens and the edges of community buildings. Churches and community groups often need someone to look after a site on a clear specification, and that’s work we do across the area. We’ll price against your spec line by line, cut to an agreed regime including cut-and-collect areas, and check the diary before each visit so we’re never mowing during a funeral.

Churches and councils in Earlswood: your questions

Anything else, just ring. You’ll speak to the people who do the work.

Can you leave areas long for wildlife?

Yes. We’ll mow paths through them and give the long grass one cut in late summer, then collect it so the soil doesn’t get richer and swamp the wildflowers. The council collects the cuttings on parts of Earlswood Common for the same reason.

Do you cut cemeteries as well?

Yes. Cemetery grass cutting is the same careful job: hand strimming round memorials and keeping paths clear for visitors.

Will you work around services?

Always. We check the diary with the churchwarden or parish office before each visit, and we’ll move a visit for a wedding or funeral without fuss.