A feeding hopper for red squirrels has been erected in the cemetery' Red Alert. The council are supporting projects to conserve the red squirrel. As red squirrels appear in the cemetery on occasion, a feeding hopper has been erected. This cannot be accessed by the heavier grey squirrel. The woodland burial area is also proposed as a future reserve for red squirrels.
Hedgehogs are safe in the cemetery.
To help them hibernate, felled trees and timber are placed in 'habitat' piles, under which they can also nest. A local resident also rescues hedgehogs and, after recovery, these are released in the cemetery. We do not use poisons or slug bait in the cemetery, chemicals which can kill these creatures. The memorials in the cemetery date from 1855 to the current time. Unsafe memorials are never removed, except where a repair or sinking deeper in the ground is not possible.