Churches, parish councils and community grounds in East Grinstead

Churchyard grass cutting in East Grinstead

Careful mowing and strimming for East Grinstead churchyards, cemeteries and community green spaces.

St Swithun’s stands at the top of the ridge, its tower a landmark for miles, with a churchyard of winding paths, mature trees and old sandstone and brick walls. Churchyard grass cutting in East Grinstead, there or at any of the town’s other churches, is slow and careful work. That means hand strimming round old stones, paths kept clear for visitors and funerals, and no rush.

We’re happy to work for churches, the town council and community groups, to your specification or one we write together. Any wildflower areas can stay long until a single cut in late summer. Visits fit around your diary, and the same team comes every time.

Churchyard grass cutting in East Grinstead among old stones and limes

The district council’s conservation area appraisal picks out St Swithun’s churchyard as the main green space in the old town, with pollarded limes along its front and mature trees round its boundaries. Ground round old graves is rarely level, and old headstones can be fragile, so churchyard maintenance there means strimming by hand round memorials rather than risking a mower catching an edge. The trees themselves we don’t touch. Notice has to go to the council before works to trees in a conservation area, and pollarding is a job for an arborist.

Cemetery grass cutting and council spaces

The town council owns Mount Noddy Cemetery on Blackwell Road, opened in 1916 and bordered by mature trees, and the old Queen’s Road Cemetery, which dates from 1869. Burial grounds like these, along with closed churchyards and community spaces, need a steady, gentle regime. We look after single sites and groups of sites, and parish council churchyard maintenance in the villages around town too. We’ll price against your specification line by line, including cut-and-collect meadow areas, and check the diary before each visit.

Churches and councils in East Grinstead: your questions

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

Can parts of the churchyard be left long for wildlife?

Yes. We mow paths through the meadow areas, cut the long grass once in late summer and collect it, so the soil doesn’t get richer and swamp the wildflowers.

Will you work around funerals and services?

Always. We check with the church office or verger before each visit and stay well away during services, weddings and funerals.

Can you strim round old, fragile headstones?

Yes, by hand and carefully. Where a stone is leaning or loose, we leave a margin round it and let you know so it can be looked at.

Do you quote for council grass cutting?

Yes. Send us the specification and the schedule and we’ll price it properly. Several sites in one contract is fine.