Welcome to Humber Woodland of Remembrance, the first green burial ground in Herefordshire

Upcoming Funeral Dates

17/2/2025 11am, 28/2/2025 1.30pm

Spring Planting Day 22nd March 10am to 2pm

Please note: There is no office onsite at Humber Woodland. Please call 01568 760443 or 07977 102783 to make an appointment.

Sturdy shoes are recommended when visiting Humber Woodland, it is a field. On a wet day wellies or boots are advisable.

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Spring Planting Day, 22nd March

Spring Planting Day

‘Woodland Burial’ by Pam Ayres

Don’t lay me in some gloomy churchyard shaded by a wall
Where the dust of ancient bones has spread a dryness over all,
Lay me in some leafy loam where, sheltered from the cold
Little seeds investigate and tender leaves unfold.
There kindly and affectionately, plant a native tree
To grow resplendent before God and hold some part of me.

The roots will not disturb me as they wend their peaceful way
To build the fine and bountiful, from closure and decay.
To seek their small requirements so that when their work is done
I’ll be tall and standing strongly in the beauty of the sun.

Reproduced by kind permission of Pam Ayres, from her book Surgically Enhanced