7,000 knitted poppies in Remembrance installation

Around 7,000 knitted poppies are on display as part of a Remembrance installation

More than 7,000 handmade poppies have been cascaded down the outside of a church to mark the start of the Remembrance season.

Cargo nets adorned with crocheted and knitted poppies have been dropped from St Andrews Church Tower in Heddington.

Wiltshire group Craft and Chat has created the Poppy Drop to raise funds for the Heddington and Stockley Royal British Legion.

Resident Liz Woodlands, who also helped create the net, said she was inspired to produce the installation after seeing a similar one elsewhere.

"We put the idea to the village in January and it went viral - it's really pulled members of the community together," she said.

"It sort of snowballed from there.

"We've got poppies that have been sent in from Yorkshire, Runcorn, from the Wirral, from Australia - all people that have connections to the village."

Ms Lewis said the project became "far bigger" than expected

Ms Lewis said the project became "far bigger" than anyone had expected.

The Poppy installation will stay up for a few months before it is put into dry storage for use for as "many years as we can", Ms Lewis explained.

Money raised from donations for the Poppy Drop will be split between St Andrew's Church and the Heddington and Stockley Royal British Legion branch.