Churches, parish councils and community grounds in Horne

Churchyard grass cutting in Horne

Careful mowing and strimming for Horne’s churchyard, verges and community spaces.

St Mary the Virgin sits on Church Road, at the heart of the village. It’s Grade II* listed, built mostly of rubblestone, with a shingled bellcote and broach spire and a timber-framed south porch, and its south door dates from around 1250. Churchyard grass cutting in Horne, or anywhere like it, is careful work: slow strimming round old stones, clear paths for visitors and funerals, and no rushing.

We work for churches, parish councils and community groups, to your specification or one we write together. A churchyard matters to a lot of people: clergy, churchwardens, families visiting graves, and the wildlife living in the long grass. Our job is to keep it tidy and to be quiet about it.

Churchyard grass cutting among old stones and heavy ground

Churchyards on clay can be uneven, and old memorials may lean or be fragile. We strim round headstones by hand rather than taking a mower close, and we keep paths and the porch approach clear of leaves and moss. Where the ground stays soft after rain, we wait rather than leave wheel marks across graves. We never lean tools or machines against memorials.

If parts of the churchyard are kept long for wildflowers, we can mow paths through them and give the long grass a single cut in late summer, collecting the cuttings afterwards.

Parish council grass cutting contracts and verges

Horne is a scattered parish, so its community ground is spread out: a verge here, a patch of grass there. A parish council grass cutting contract can bring sites like these together on one schedule. We’ll price against your specification line by line, follow any cut-and-collect or wildflower rules, and work to a written schedule. If a contract covers the churchyard and a few verges, we’ll do them on the same day.

Churchyard maintenance is fitted around services, weddings and funerals. We check the diary before every visit.

Churches and councils in Horne: your questions

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

Do you look after closed churchyards?

Yes. Closed churchyard maintenance is the same careful work, done on a schedule agreed with whoever holds responsibility for the site.

Can you quote for a parish council contract?

Yes. Send us the specification and schedule and we’ll price it properly. Several sites around the parish can share one contract.

Will you work around funerals?

Always. We check with the church before each visit and stay away during services.

Who is responsible for churchyard maintenance?

Usually the parochial church council. If a churchyard has been formally closed, the upkeep can pass to the local council. Either way, we’ll work to whoever holds the contract.