As part of the Restoration Project, around 1½ acres of the oldest part of the cemetery (1840)
have been designated a Nature Conservation Area, being unmown from spring to autumn. FORC is tending the area, trying to keep the ever invasive brambles at bay currently, the green grass is covered with a carpet of primroses.
With the battle for restoration won, many think that FORC’s role has ended. With some of the original volunteers now quite elderly, they have called it a day, although there is still much work to do graves that were totally cleared a few years ago are in need of another visit, and there are still hundreds that have yet to see the light of day for the first time since succumbing to Nature!