FOMHC Team

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Caring for The Cemetery

We, the garden volunteers, look after this three-acre cemetery, on a sunny, south-facing slope, for ...

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Fomhc Charity

Our Charity

Friends of Mendip Hospital Cemetery Registered Charity number: 1085981 In June 2000 the cemetery of ...

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Mhc Gardeners

Volunteer

Come and join our friendly gardening team With three acres to tend, including a coppice, ...

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Patient Photos 2021

Family Search

Finding your lost ancestor The names of all those buried in our cemetery can be ...

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The Chapel Exhibition

The Chapel Exhibition 

The exhibition in our chapel traces the beginnings of the asylum from its instigation in ...

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Graveyard For Sale 2000

The History

On the 14th October 1873, “the committee of visitors elected…on behalf of the county of ...

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Visiting the Cemetery

“I recently visited this wonderful cemetery and I can reassure you that the memories of ...

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Mhc 2018 Sections Aerial

The Cemetery in early 1970s

“Despite its sad and almost uncared for history, the old cemetery breathes an aura of ...

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About Mendip Hospital.

“Personally I think these places should never have been abolished.  They provided an asylum in ...

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Preserving and protecting the Cemetery

“I am so deeply moved by this. What you have done and are doing is ...

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