Churchyard

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The churchyard of Vepriai, Lithuania
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The churchyard of Vepriai, Lithuania

A churchyard is a patch of land adjoining a church, often used as a graveyard. Churchyards can be host to unique and ancient habitats due to the fact that they may remain significantly unchanged for hundreds of years.[1]

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  1. ^ How natural is a nature reserve? An ideological study of British nature conservation landscapes, Cooper NS, Biodiversity and Conservation, 9, 2000, 1131-1152
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