Ecological summary

Burial grounds are fantastic places for biodiversity, often containing species rich grassland which was once widespread in the UK. The walls and monuments create habitat for amphibians, reptiles, small mammals and invertebrates as well as ferns, mosses and liverworts. Of the 2,000 lichen species in the UK, 700 are found in churchyards with a third of these rarely found elsewhere. Check for thrushes feeding on yew berries and swifts and bats under the eaves.

Caring for God's Acre is a national charity dedicated to supporting those managing burial grounds for conservation and heritage purposes. More information on the support offered can be found on their website here: https://www.caringforgodsacre.org.uk. To view the occurrence records in this burial ground click on the View records button underneath the map.

Ancient & Veteran Trees

The UK holds a globally important population of veteran and ancient yew trees of which three-quarters are found in the churchyards of England and Wales. There are about 800 of these ancient and veteran yews, aged from 500 to several 1,000 years old, with no known upper age limit. Burial grounds may contain veteran trees of other species.

Burial grounds may also contain veteran trees of other species, acting as hosts to a wealth of associated plants, animals, lichen and fungi.

Bats and Swifts

Bats – Bats use both the buildings and also the mature and veteran trees within burial grounds to roost, breed and overwinter. These places are relatively unchanging and so populations may have built up over centuries. In addition, bats may forage and feed over the grassland and other vegetation, taking advantage of the wide variety of insect species to be found.

Swifts – The eaves, roofs, towers and steeples of historic churches and chapels, combined with the space around them for accessing nooks and crannies make burial grounds excellent for nesting swifts. These buildings are relatively unchanging and so populations may have built up over centuries. Nests are hard to find and so surveying is crucial for good management.

[counting] species

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Datasets

datasets have provided data to the NBN Atlas Beautiful Burial Grounds for this place.

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Other Heritage Information

Group Species

[counting] species

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Taxa No. of records Most recent record
Acarospora fuscata 1 2000
Acarospora privigna 1 2000
Apus apus (Swift) 1 2023
Buellia aethalea 1 2000
Caloplaca citrina s. str. 1 2000
Caloplaca oasis 1 2000
Candelariella aurella f. aurella 1 2000
Candelariella vitellina f. vitellina 1 2000
Cladonia pyxidata 1 2000
Lecania erysibe s. lat. 1 2000
Lecanora conizaeoides f. conizaeoides 1 2000
Lecanora orosthea 1 2000
Lecanora polytropa 1 2000
Lecidella scabra 1 2000
Lecidella stigmatea 1 2000
Lepraria incana s. lat. 1 2000
Micarea lignaria var. lignaria 1 2000
Myriolecis albescens 1 2000
Myriolecis antiqua 1 2000
Myriolecis dispersa 1 2000
Pertusaria lactescens 1 2000
Phaeophyscia orbicularis 1 2000
Physcia adscendens 1 2000
Physcia caesia 1 2000
Placynthiella icmalea 1 2000
Porpidia soredizodes 1 2000
Porpidia tuberculosa 1 2000
Protoparmeliopsis muralis 1 2000
Psilolechia leprosa 1 2000
Scoliciosporum umbrinum 1 2000
Trapelia coarctata 1 2000
Trapelia glebulosa s. lat. 1 2000
Trapelia obtegens 1 2000
Trapelia placodioides 1 2000
Verrucaria hochstetteri 1 2000
Verrucaria nigrescens 1 2000
Xanthoria parietina (Common Orange Lichen) 1 2000
Xanthoria polycarpa 1 2000
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Charts showing breakdown of occurrence records ([counting] records)

Data sets Licence Records