[2] The cemetery was claimed to be haunted by a ghostly nun that would hover over the grave of Julia Martha Thomas, the victim of an infamous murder in 1879.

Indeed, its resultant ‘gothic charm’ and evocative light levels that have been enhanced by selective thinning and conservation work, make it a popular site for local art and film students.

With good feeding grounds all around, many native birds and summer visitors breed in the cemetery, including thrushes, wrens, tits, finches, blackcap, chiff chaff, willow warbler, goldcrest while others migrate through.

Some of the original planting is still in evidence: large specimens of yew, cedar, holly, Holm oak, pines and Wych elm.

In some of the more open glades you can see pretty herbaceous species such aslike Herb Robert, Ox-eye Daisy and foxglove.