Pet Cemetery Traditional Cache
Thora Gruntwinkle: Putting this wee cache to bed. Thanks for the comments and apologies for the delay in archiving.
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Located in Kilsyth, North Lanarkshire, The Colzium Estate is rich in history and is open throughout the year. Features of the estate include the excavated remains of a 15th Century L-plan tower house, once the seat of the Livingstons of Linlithgow but demolished in 1703.
Nearby is a traditional Scottish ice-house c.1680 which has been restored and is open for public inspection.Colzium Estate has plenty to offer with the reknown walled gardens containing many rare beautful plant specis.
Visitors can explore the many trails and can view the castle ruins on the estate. The clock theatre house is also located on the estate in what is believed to have formerly been the laundry and donkey house!
Pet Cemetery
People love their pets so it’s only right that they should be respected in death too. There’s an old belief that our pets wait for us at ‘The Rainbow Bridge’ where they will be reunited with us when we die. Colzium Pet Cemetery is not actually an official pet cemetery and that is part of the beauty of it. Like its counter part in the Stephen King novel this burial ground has grown on its own. Set in the grounds of Colzium House, now a country park with various woodland walks, the pet cemetery is an odd assortment of home made memorials which are strangely sad but in a lovely way when you think of the effort people have put in so they can pay tribute to the life of a pet. As you walk among them you see small stones cats and dogs peeking at from the foliage. There is the haunting tinkling of the chimes hanging from the trees. Sadly, North Lanarkshire Council, the current owners of the house and grounds, have placed up signage in recent years asking that the area not be used for burials stating any new memorials will be removed. It seems silly when you realise there are stones dating back to 1914, clearly the original inhabitants of this house had set aside the area for just such a purpose. The sign seems to go ignored however as there are in fact new graves appearing all the time and the council do not seem to follow up on the threat of removing them. There are even plots with multiple burials, owners returning with their deceased pets companion to join them together again under the ground. Most amazingly is the fact that it is a bit of a walk from the road and one of the memorials is to an akita, you have to marvel at the determination of someone dragging a dog that size up a dirt trail in a woods and digging a hole large enough to accommodate it. That’s commitment.
(stolen from (visit link) Thank you.
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