Ludford Park Meadow of Remembrance

Return to Nature

Ludford Park Meadow of Remembrance provides a peaceful resting place within a natural wildlife environment, ensuring a dignified, secure, everlasting place of rest, with no maintenance, for family or friends.

Funerals can be carried out without a funeral director. However, graves can only be dug and filled under the supervision of a qualified grave digger for health and safety reasons.

We would recommend that advice be sought from a funeral director when considering options; we can arrange this for you if required.

The traditional funeral pattern does not have to be rigidly followed; there can be a religious service, a secular service or no service. Graves can be consecrated if wished and services can be in a church or building of your choice or at the graveside. In addition, ashes can be buried in plots or scattered beneath the trees.

Flowers can be placed at the time of burial and will be removed after a suitable period of time, after which, flowers may be placed in the vases provided in the area of remembrance if desired.

The grave may be marked with a flat stone of your choice set into the ground, no larger that 15 inches square. Wild flowers may be planted on the grave if desired.

A limited amount of memorial shrubs and small plaques are available near some of the seating areas.

Ludlford Park - Meadow of Remembrance

Within walking distance of Ludlow Town, the is peaceful wild flower meadow is an idyllic setting, changing with the seasons.

Ludford Park, Meadow of Remembrance is a wild flower meadow sown with a mix of fifty-six species of grasses and wild flowers, including Cowslip, Musk-mallow, Yellow Rattle, Oxeye Daisy and Buttercup.

The area will be mown once a year at a time to encourage the wild flowers and attract bird species such as Skylark, Meadow Pipit and Corn Bunting, all declining nationally. Field mice and voles will colonise the grassland, attracting Kestrels and Barn Owls. Numerous butterflies will be attracted to the wild flowers; Green-veined White, Meadow Brown, Small Copper and Skippers can all be expected.

We do ask you to bear in mind that graves, even marked by stone, may be under grasses and wild flowers for part of the year and may not be readily visible from the paths. When visiting the meadow, we would appreciate your co-operation in keeping to the paths, thus protecting the wild flowers.

Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there, i do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glint on snow.

I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.

When you wake in the morning hush,
I am the swift, uplifting rush
of quiet birds in circling flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand and my grave and cry.
I am not there, I did not die.

Anon