Somerset

Somerset

England

Churchyards and Cemeteries

August 2011

At the moment this web site is having a major overhaul and therefore quite a few of the links are not working - sorry about that but I hope to get them all sorted soon. As well as losing my domain name and the new web address links not working, over the past year I had been updating many of the pages, mainly adding maiden names where I have been able to find them and I will be uploading the amended pages soon, whilst sorting out the links. New additions, with links that are working, are Drayton, East Lambrook, Middle Lambrook, Lopen and Puckington. I also made a trip back to Barrington and have updated those pages.

Barrington - St Mary’s Church

Chillington – St James' Church

Curry Rivel – St Andrew’s Church

East Lambrook - St James' Church

Drayton - St Catherine's Church

Fivehead - St Martin's Church

Fivehead - The Cemetery

Hambridge - St James the Less Church

Huish Episcopi - St Mary the Virgin

Isle Abbotts - St Mary the Virgin

Isle Abbotts - Baptist Church

Isle Brewer - All Saint's Church

Kingsbury Episcopi - St Martin's Church

Lopen - All Saints' Church

Martock - All Saint's Church

Middle Lambrook - United Reformed Church

Muchelney – Church of St Peter & St Paul

Puckington - St Andrew's Church

Seavington St Mary - St Mary's Church

Seavington St Michael - St Michael's Church

Shepton Beauchamp – St Michael’s Church

South Petherton - The Cemetery

Your tombstone stands out amongst the rest,
neglected and alone,
The name and date are chiseled out
in polished marble stone.
It reaches out to all who care,
it is too late to mourn
You did not know that I’d exist,
you died and I was born.
Yet each of us is cells of you
in flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our heart contracts, and beats a pulse,
entirely not our own.
Dear ancestor, the place you filled
one hundred years ago
spreads out amongst the ones you left
who would have loved you so.
I wonder how you lived and loved,
I wonder if you knew,
that someday I would find this spot,
and come and visit you.

(author unknown)

A special thanks to my very good friend - without Donna I would not have been able to visit the many churchyards and cemeteries, she also helped with the photography too!