The natural landscape at Ford Park has a wonderful blend of the formal oldest quarter nearest the chapels with Yew trees standing like sombre sentinels on the junctions of paths and the softer more country feel the further in the site you walk.

The maintenance and grass cutting regime has an emphasis on working with nature – allowing wildflowers to self seed and provide food for birds. Under Trust ownership there have been over 500 trees planted at the cemetery.

The cemetery maintenance team, working with Grounds Manager Dave Wickett, delivers the Trust contract with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to maintain 799 war graves, 560 individual private contracts; and have restored 175 service graves for the Commission and 375 for private individuals.

There is an ongoing rolling programme to stabilise headstones – a legacy from years of decline before the cemetery ownership transferred to the Trust in 2000.

A landscape development plan drawn up with award winning landscape designers Acres Wild has been implemented. Improvements to the infrastructure including the paths, vehicular routes and drainage have been made to ensure that the cemetery is safe and caters for the funeral business community.

Did you know?

Holly bushes dot the cemetery landscape – the product of Christmas wreaths laid on graves and self-seeded from the berries.

 

 

To contact us call 01752 665442, Fax 01752 601177 or
e-mail at info@ford-park-cemetery.org