Churches, parish councils and community grounds in Horley

Churchyard grass cutting in Horley

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

One of Horley’s oldest buildings is a church. St Bartholomew’s on Church Road is mostly 14th century, Grade I listed, and has listed chest tombs in its churchyard. Churchyard grass cutting in Horley, there or anywhere like it, needs a careful hand: slow strimming round old stones, paths kept clear for funerals and visitors, and no rush.

We’re happy to work for churches, councils and community groups, to an existing specification or one we write together. Wildflower areas can be left long and cut once in late summer. Visits are fitted around your diary, not ours, and the same team turns up each time.

Churchyard grass cutting among old yews and headstones

The council’s draft appraisal for the Church Road conservation area picks out the churchyard’s yews and Irish yews as its most prominent trees, and notes a 1913 churchyard extension with its wall and a cedar. Ground round old graves is rarely level, and stones can be fragile. So we strim by hand around memorials rather than risk a mower catching an edge. We leave the trees alone. Work to trees in a conservation area needs six weeks’ notice to the council, and it’s a job for an arborist.

Parish council grass cutting contracts and community spaces

Horley Town Council lists 29 parks, play areas and open spaces, many of them on the newer estates. Churches, councils and community groups often need someone to pick up a single site, a verge or a closed churchyard on a clear specification. A churchyard on its own is just the kind of work we like, and so is a parish with several sites. 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.

Churches and councils in Horley: your questions

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

Can you leave parts of the churchyard long for wildlife?

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

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.

Can you quote for a parish council grass cutting contract?

Yes. Send us the specification and schedule and we’ll price it properly, line by line. If the contract covers several sites around town, that’s fine too.

Will you work around funerals?

Always. We check with the churchwarden or parish office before each visit and keep well away during services, weddings and funerals.