Site name: Stocksbridge United Reform Church	Zone: Inner Zone
Land owner: United Reform Church?	Date of survey: 25-Feb-00
Current management: Amenity grass areas mown, flowerbed maintenance and some trimming of sides of leylandii hedge. Pollarding of trees to west side of church.	Proposed management: Flowers for graves (wildflowers for graves), but area limited to promote this. Continue practice of pollarding ashes.
	Date of Visual Survey - Aug 2004	Click map to see details and location of photographs

The ideas and possibilities outlined below are designed to help members of the local community as they think about what could happen on this site. Nothing is fixed and alternative solutions may well emerge over the coming decade - it is for the local community to decide and enable it to happen. Email here to volunteer to help and to send your ideas, reactions, corrections to the SVP team.

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3.	Visual Attributes - update 2004 This site is very well tended and cared for. The graveyard is situated to the east of the church and is enclosed to the north by a tall Leylandii hedge and bounded by a dry stone wall. Mown grass surrounds the gravestones, with a shrub and perennial border including cotoneaster and holly around the edges. Large trees, mainly sycamore, surround the site. Behind the graveyard, the car park is surfaced with tarmac and the church hall sits at the west end of it. A steep bank backs onto the steel works and Hole House brook runs along the north and west of the site. Species include rowan, ash, sycamore and hedge bindweed, as well as other scrub plants and some cultivated varieties of daisy and rose. To the west of the church hall there is a mown grass strip which provides a good contrast. A row of attractive pollarded ash trees lines the boundary to the west side of the church. Self-set valerian and rosebay willowherb provide a colourful display in areas around the site.
Safety The graveyard is open, yet sheltered by the tall hedge. It is within view of passing traffic, although protected from the road by the stone wall. The car park at the back is quite enclosed, with dense planting at the rear which may lead to a slight feeling of unease, especially after dark. Activities that the site supports at present Church goers and visitors to functions at the church hall will walk through the space and use the car park. Activities that could be supported in the future The large areas of mown grass in-between the graves could be replaced by more visually interesting planting that would require minimal maintenance. (An example is the graveyard at Bolton Percy.) There is currently a lack of seating on the site.	Ideas for change This is a well-tended site. There is some woodland at the back of the car park to the north. The Steel Valley Project has assisted with thinning the belt of these trees. No change to the current maintenance regime is proposed.

Ecology

HABITAT TYPES FOUND ON SITE
	found 2002	aim by 2012		found 2002	aim by 2012
Amenity Grassland	*		Mosses and Bryophytes	*
Amenity Shrubs	*		Heath Land
Amenity Tree Planting			Wetlands
Amenity Flower Beds	*		Open Water
Amenity Hedges	*		Running Water
Rough Grassland			Cultivated/Disturbed Land
Acid Grassland			Bare Earth/Erosion
Marshy Grassland			Hedges
Trees Broadleaf	*		Walls	*
Trees Coniferous	*		Fences
Trees Mixed			Invasive Species
Scrub			Other (Please state)
Tall Herbs			Several pollarded ash trees on west side of church	*
Low Herbs and Shrubs (Native)
Amenity Bulb Planting

Stocksbridge SRB5 Greenspace Audit undertaken by Jim Flanagan for Sheffield Wildlife Trust - see their Community Action Handbook - full of good ideas for your local site

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