General Interest

November 13, 2025

Margaret Care Founder Member of Friends of Folkestone Old Cemetery

Margaret Care was a founder member of the ‘Friends of Folkestone Cemetery’, being at the first meeting when the group’s setting-up was discussed over…

November 11, 2025

Armistice Day

As is customary each year on Armistice Day (11 November), veterans and their families, representatives from the office of the Lord Lieutenant, Folkestone &…

November 3, 2025

Winter in a Churchyard or Cemetery

A winter visit to a churchyard, chapel yard, or cemetery can be a rewarding experience. While you watch redwings and other winter thrushes feasting…

October 20, 2025

Baby Loss Awareness Day

On 15th October, our volunteers marked Baby Loss Awareness Day with a touching tribute in the White Garden at Cheriton Road Cemetery. Around 350…

October 20, 2025

Caring For Gods Acre – Resources

The Caring for God’s Acre website at www.caringforgodsacre.org.uk is an excellent online resource for anyone involved with volunteer “Friends” groups looking after churchyards and…

October 16, 2025

BBC Item: The island where human remains rise to the surface

Published October 2025 — adapted from BBC News reporting, with additional historical context Out in the Medway Estuary, not far from Sheerness, lies a…

October 4, 2025

Plans unveiled for eco-friendly burial ground in Hythe countryside

A new natural burial ground could be created on grassland opposite Sene Valley Golf Club in Hythe. Funeral director Holly Lyon-Hawk, of Gentle Endings,…

August 9, 2025

With Councils under pressure to increase development does this signal a wider trend?

Campaigners are opposing plans to build 20 homes on the former Tunbridge Wells Cemetery in Benhall Mill Road, arguing that human remains may still…

August 6, 2025

Nuns Graves Holmhurst

Hidden in the woods at Holmhurst St Mary are a few quiet graves — simple wooden crosses marking just a first name, age, and…

July 26, 2025

Victorian Cemetery Walk and Talk

New Folkestone Society – Event Report We were thrilled to welcome over 60 attendees to our recent Victorian Cemetery Walk and Talk, held in…

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