This Victorian cemetery was opened in 1875. Situated beside a railway line and separated only by a single row of houses from the huge open space of Wanstead Flats (linking the cemetery to Wanstead Park, Epping Forest and the Roding Valley), it is ideally placed for a wide range of birds, other animals and plants to colonise the various habitats. The cemetery has two areas of woodland and rough grassland, as well as more formally managed areas with some fine mature trees.
Local Wildlife Site
Accessible Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation
Manor Park Cemetery
Borough: Newham
Grade: Borough Grade I
Access: Free public access (all/most of site)
Area: 17.12 ha
Description
Wildlife
The cemetery's grassland has a good range of common wildflowers, chiefly around the edges. The woodland consists of young ash and sycamore beneath mature oak and lime, with foxglove and male-fern in the ground flora. A good range of breeding birds includes tawny owl, all three woodpeckers, goldcrest, nuthatch and four species of warbler.Facilities
Car parking; toilet.
Roosting tawny owls © Nigel Reeve
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