HELLO AUNTY

The 'new' cemetry on Greenhow hill, the highest place in Britain to be laid to rest, often windswept, quite desolate and where dear Aunty Lille has been resting her bones these last twenty years.
An unusual lych-gate by Robert Thompson of Kilburn (the famous mouseman) marks the entrance to this windswept plot.His signature of carved mice can be seen inside the roof. It was designed by J.S.Syme of York and erected in the 1940's. The lychgate was a gift from Miss D Chadwick, in memory of her father, Rev James Chadwick, Vicar of St Mary's from 1894 to 1903,and was dedicated by the Bishop of Ripon. In 2003.
The dedication carved in the lych-gate is from Psalm 121, "I will lift up mine eyes to the hills from whence cometh my help". A most appropriate Psalm for Greenhow, with the highest parish church in the country.
The cemetery is now managed in such a way so as to preserve the ancient and protected species of flora, which includes primroses and three type of orchid.