Adlington Town Council

There has been a further update from Chorley Council regarding their safety inspections at Adlington Cemetery. Please see below for recently shared information:

We wanted to update you regarding the work taking place at Adlington Cemetery. As you may have seen, we have recently undertaken routine safety inspections to make sure our cemeteries remain safe for all visitors. Some gravestones have been identified as being unsafe and may be at risk of falling over. We have attempted to contact all affected gravestone owners and will try to make contact again, in order to discuss all options available to reinstate the memorials in a safe way.

For those we are unable to make contact with, or where we have not had a response, work will begin to carefully lay these memorial headstones flat. This will be done with the utmost respect. This work was due to start at Adlington Cemetery on 13 October 2025, however we have listened to your concerns and with the exception of two critical headstones which are over 2.5 metres in height, we have moved this date back to 27 October to allow more time for people to get in touch.

After this time, gravestones can still be reinstated in the future, and we would ask anyone who would like to discuss this to contact us. We will be updating our signage to ensure people visiting the cemetery in the future are aware. In order to identify which memorial headstones may be unsafe, a first round of checks was carried out by our officers who have undergone relevant training. This involved both visual and physical inspections. A further inspection is taking place by qualified stonemasons to confirm the identified headstones before laying them down flat.

If a headstone has been identified as unsafe and family members wish to have it reinstated, they will need to instruct a qualified stonemason. We recognise this is a difficult situation for families and so we can support families to minimise costs, waiving any of the council’s usual fees and contributing to the costs of any works, please contact us to discuss further.

We want to be on hand to answer any of your questions and along with contacting us on 01257 515494, you can speak to us in person at Adlington Cemetery on:

• Wednesday, 8 October – 9am to 11:30am

• Thursday, 9 October – 1pm to 3:30pm

• Saturday, 11 October – 9am to 11:30am

• Tuesday, 14 October – 9am to 11:30am

• Wednesday, 15 October – 1pm to 3:30pm

• Saturday,18 October – 9am to 11:30am

For further information, including answers to frequently asked questions, please visit: https://chorley.gov.uk/cemetery-inspections

Thank you for your understanding and support as we continue to care for these important community spaces.

Adlington welcomed a Royal guest on 9th September 2025, when HRH The Princess Royal (Princess Anne) visited a local textile company. The Princess Royal last visited Adlington around 15 years ago.

Thank you to everyone that attended the Wreath Laying Ceremony at Adlington & District War Memorial, and helped to ensure that we acknowledged the 80th anniversary of VJ Day.

59 people from Adlington & District lost their life during World War Two and it is important we acknowledge their sacrifice, which has enabled us all to lead the lives we do today.

With thanks to St Paul’s Church Adlington and also St Paul’s Bell Ringers, Adlington, the special VJ Day Peal from the War Memorial Tower rang out to celebrate the peace that returned to our community after the war.

We will remember them.

Many thanks to everyone that attended the Adlington Civic Service at St Paul’s Church Adlington. It was good to see representatives from a number of local authorities and wonderful to see a number of local organisations represented. It provided a great occasion to acknowledge and thank the many people involved in serving the community and volunteering their time for the good of others.

Thank you also to everyone that offered support and helped on the day.

Well done again to everyone involved in Adlington Skip Day in June 2025. In spite of the bad weather and unfortunate absence of one of the skips, a lot of waste was cleared away.

Thank you to the team from Chorley Council for collecting larger, heavier waste items from local addresses.

The team were able to recycle certain items from the skips. The items, including six bicycles, which were then dropped off at the ‘Ukraine Unit’ donation centre in Chorley, which is operated by the Town Mayor, Cllr Stuart Clewlow. The bikes were all unusable as they were, but will be sent to a workshop in Ukraine. One person’s waste is another person’s treasure!

This was an all round great example of partnership working and helping the community. Well done everyone.