This pleasant Victorian churchyard offers shady woodland and colourful, flowery grassland.
Local Wildlife Site
Accessible Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation
St James's Churchyard, Hampton Hill
Borough: Richmond upon Thames
Grade: Local
Access: Free public access (all/most of site)
Area: 0.72 ha
Description
Wildlife
The shady northern half has a good variety of mature trees, including copper beech, walnut, weeping ash, silver birch, pine and pedunculate oak. Beneath the trees, a typical woodland ground flora is developing, including ground elder, wood avens, germander speedwell, cow parsley and creeping soft-grass. The more open, southern half is mostly grassland and is managed as a wildflower meadow. The sward of cock's-foot and Yorkshire-fog contains a colourful range of common wildflowers, including meadow vetchling, oxeye daisy, common knapweed, lesser stitchwort, lady's bedstraw, red clover and teasel.Facilities
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