Dorset Group Vegetation Management Day at the Graveyard at St Mary's Old Church, East Compton

Event details

Saturday 11 January
11 - 3pm

Join the Dorset SPAB Group for a great day working outside cutting back overgrown vegetation – shrubs, ivy, brambles – on this SPAB-owned site in rural Dorset. This is a social day while also doing some much-needed vegetation management on this attractive site.

You will need 

Bring suitable clothes for the weather on the day and a picnic lunch, hot drinks etc. Also work gloves, secateurs, loppers, hedge shears, kneelers, and so on if you have them.

Please wear sturdy footwear.

Where is it

The address is ‘The Old Church, East Compton, Compton Abbas’. This is a grassy disused graveyard surrounded by a wall with the tower of the old church still standing. It is NOT the Victorian church on the A350 at Compton Abbas itself.

East Compton is a hamlet under the Downs to the east of the main Blandford to Shaftesbury road (A350) down a narrow lane which runs in a loop. The site lies at the far end of the loop.

Full joining instructions will be provided in the confirmation emails. 

Anything we can do to make this event more accessible for you? Please email membership@spab.org.uk.

We may take photos or videos at this event to be used in future promotion, including in print and online.

All bookings are subject to our Terms and Conditions. 

Photo credit: Iain Boyd, Working Party at East Compton, Dorset.