Our award-winning Churchyard is freely open for the enjoyment of the community and visitors. A lot of hard work is put in by a group of dedicated volunteers who strive to increase the biodiversity of the area, whilst providing space for quiet prayer, reflection and meditation.
A great day for all was held at St Mary’s Church Chirk on 26th August where intrepid Teddies flew the Zip Wire from the Church Tower. A barbeque satisfied human appetites along with an array of delicious puddings and cups of tea and coffee. Add to this a treasure trail Read more…
Kath and Ferelith attended the ‘Green Flag’ (Keep Wales Tidy) awards held in Wrexham last week. We are very proud to be presented with the award by the Wrexham Mayor once again. The team has started to cut the long grass in 3 different areas in the churchyard. We will Read more…
This month’s bird survey was held in St Mary’s Churchyard on 04/07/2019 : Species recorded (Birds)16. Blackbird 16 Carrion Crow 3 Coal Tit 2 Dunnock 2 Goldfinch 3 Great Tit 1 House Sparrow 2 Jackdaw 13 Magpie 3 Robin 4 Song thrush 3 Swallow 2 Swift 4 Willow Warbler 1 Wood Read more…
The churchyard team welcomed Gwyl Roche from Green Flag (Keep Wales Tidy) on 21st May. We showed him around and explained what we have been doing over the past year and how we go about doing our projects/maintenance of the churchyard. The Green flag can be seen occasionally flying from Read more…
Our churchyard group treated Saturday morning shoppers to a plant sale, held outside St Mary’s Church, Chirk. The Oswestry Advertiser came and wrote an article about it, which can be read here. The churchyard volunteers are a hardworking group who meet every Friday afternoon. There is more information in the Read more…
Churchyard May new update Bird survey by Kit Twigg 06/04/2019 07:20 – 08:24 Complete list of species recorded (Birds): Blackbird (6) Blue Tit (6) Carrion Crow (4) Chiffchaff (2) Collared Dove (1) Dunnock (1) Goldfinch (5) Great Tit (3) Greenfinch (3) Jackdaw (7) Pheasant (1) Robin (4) Woodpigeon (8) On Saturday Read more…
April bird survey done by Kit Twigg. 06/04/2019 07:20 – 08:24The complete of species (birds) recorded: Blackbird (6) Blue Tit (6) Carrion Crow (4) Chiffchaff (2) Collared Dove (1) Dunnock (1) Goldfinch (5) Great Tit (3) Greenfinch (3) Jackdaw (7) Pheasant (1) Robin (4) Woodpigeon (8) The Churchyard AGM was Read more…
March is a fabulous month. Everything starts to come to life again. We have been busy putting a low log edging to the wild flower area near the church hall. The willow weave edging tends to disintegrate after 2-3 years. We hope it will start to blend in over the Read more…
Churchyard News – February 2019 Here is the Bird survey for February done by Kit Twigg (see below). Other things to look out for this February, are the beautiful snow drops, yellow aconites, a huge covering of purple crocus and some purple hellebores which are just appearing. The Prunus (cherry Read more…
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