Norley Wildflower Memorial walk

In the Great War, 87 Norley men went to war but only 77 returned - one, Christopher Fletcher was so badly injured that he died some years later. Norley has no public war memorial as such, there is a beautiful stained glass window and brass plaques in St John the Evangelist but very few now know anything about these men. The walk is intended to take these names and put them back into the community where they in the words of Lt Col McCrae in his poem “In Flanders Fields “... lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow loved and were loved... Two of the men are buried in St John’s churchyard where the walk starts.

A further 11 memorial plaques are sited around the village, often close to where they lived. Plaques in season are surrounded by wildflowers, red poppies in remembrance and other flowers they would have seen as they walked about the village all those years ago. Norley Wildlife Group has arranged a walk around Norley, passing all the plaques.