Local Wildlife Site

Wildlife

Parts of the cemetery are still used for burials, and these are formally managed. There are some fine mature trees, including oak and yew, as well as numerous exotic species. The grass between the graves is closely mown, and there are flower beds, shrubberies and evergreen hedges. Away from the areas for recent burials, management has been relaxed and woodland has developed. Young oak, ash, birch and sycamore have filled the gaps between the old landscape trees, and there is a dense shrub layer of willows, hawthorn, blackthorn and suckering elm. The ground-level plant life is dominated by bramble and ivy, and also includes foxglove, wood sage and garlic mustard. The cemetery supports a good range of breeding birds, including green and great spotted woodpeckers, coal tit and nuthatch. This is the most northerly known site in Britain (and the only site in London) for the dusky cockroach. This scarce native insect is not one of the cockroach species which can become a household pest.

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