Local Wildlife Site

Wildlife

Most of Camberwell New Cemetery is intensively managed, but there are small areas of mixed woodland, scrub and rough grassland in the south-west corner. Ant hills are frequent in the less disturbed grassland and support a number of herbs including ox-eye daisy and autumn hawkbit. The cemetery also contains some fine hedgerows and a variety of mature trees. Honor Oak Crematorium is formally landscaped but contains plenty of dense shrubberies, providing ideal nesting habitat for common birds. There is also a small pond here as well as numerous mature trees which help support pipistrelle bats, slow-worm, common lizard, stag beetle and house sparrow. The eastern edge of the crematorium grades into woodland within the adjacent Forest Hill to New Cross Gate railway cutting, a Metropolitan site. The Honor Oak Nursery site is largely wasteland with a wide variety of plants, some of them relics of the previous use.

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