This site comprises a pleasant churchyard with flowery grassland, and an adjacent cemetery with bare gravel supporting uncommon plants.
Local Wildlife Site
Accessible Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation
Ilford Cemetery and St Mary's Churchyard
Borough: Redbridge
Grade: Local
Access: Free public access (all/most of site)
Area: 4.4 ha
Description
Wildlife
The cemetery has an unusual habitat of bare soil and gravel, supporting a wide range of ruderal plants including wild pansy, celery-leaved buttercup (here growing in an unusually dry habitat) and several garden escapees. There are foxes present. The churchyard is a pleasant area of mostly unmanaged grassland and tall flowers with several patches of common St John's-wort and spotted medick.Facilities
Historic features.
Yellow corydalis © Edwin Van Ek
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