London Wildlife Trust

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London Wildlife Trust
Founded1981 (1981)
Type Charitable organization
Focus Nature conservation
Location
Area served
London
Key people
David Mooney (CEO), Mathew Frith (Director of Conservation), Leah McNally (Director of Projects & Visitor Engagement), Charlie Sims (Director of Visitor Experience), Rufus Radcliffe (Chair)
Website www.wildlondon.org.uk

London Wildlife Trust (LWT), founded in 1981, is a local nature conservation charity for Greater London. It is one of 46 members of the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts (known as The Wildlife Trusts), each of which is a local nature conservation charity for its area. [1] [2] The Trust aims to protect London's wildlife and wild spaces, and it manages 36 nature reserves in Greater London. [3] The Trust provides education services for schools. Local groups work on reserves and organise walks. [4]

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The Trust's oldest reserves include Sydenham Hill Wood, which was managed by Southwark Wildlife Group before 1982 and thus was already a Trust reserve at that date. The campaign to save Gunnersbury Triangle began that same year, succeeding in 1983 when a public inquiry ruled that the site could not be developed because of its value for nature. [5] [6] The small Centre for Wildlife Gardening in East Dulwich has won an award for its work. [5] The Trust pioneered the systematic recording of data on wildlife and the environment in the capital. Its "Biological Recording Project" became the semi-independent "Greenspace Information for Greater London", known as GIGL. [5]

The Trust has more than 50 members of staff and 1500 volunteers who work together on activities as varied as water management, chalk grassland restoration, helping people with special needs and giving children an opportunity to go pond-dipping. The Trust collaborates with government agencies, local authorities, housing associations, commercial companies, building developers and sponsors to create plans and strategies at local, regional and national level, including the All London Green Grid and Biodiversity Action Plans. [7] The Trust's reserves receive over 230,000 visitors per year. [8] [9] The trust is supported by over 10,000 members. [10]

In its strategy document, For a Wilder City. London Wildlife Trust 2015–20, the Trust sets out its vision and mission, as well as plans for a five-year period. The trust states its vision as: "A London alive with nature, where everyone can experience and enjoy wildlife." [8] It describes its mission in three parts as "Protecting, Restoring and Creating wild places for nature", [8] "Engaging, Inspiring and Enabling people to connect with nature", [8] and "Championing, Challenging, and Influencing people to stand up for nature". [8] Among its aims for protecting and restoring, the Trust intends to bring 30 of its reserves to "Favourable Condition" by 2020. It plans to restore the Sydenham and Norwood woodlands, and the "Living Landscape" of the Great North Wood as a part of The Great North Wood Project, and to reintroduce the water vole to the River Wandle. [11]

"Engaging, Inspiring and Enabling": A volunteer warden instructing a Headstart group A London Wildlife Trust Volunteer Warden instructing a Headstart group in Gunnersbury Triangle.jpg
"Engaging, Inspiring and Enabling": A volunteer warden instructing a Headstart group

The Trust's aims for engaging and enabling include new visitor centres for the reserves at Camley Street, Gunnersbury Triangle, Woodberry Wetlands and Walthamstow Wetlands. and training young people in its "Wild Talent" programme. [14] Its aims for championing nature include creating a London development biodiversity standard, hosting the London Environment Educators' Forum, collaborating on projects across the city, and opening new reserves such as Byng Road (High Barnet), Braeburn Park (Crayford) and Crane Meadows (Heathrow). Recent projects have helped to support pollinators and to conserve the Welsh Harp reservoir. [15] The Trust has three permanent charitable objectives, namely the conservation of places and objects of scientific interest and natural beauty, and of biodiversity, in Greater London; [12] the education of the public, especially young people, in nature conservation, sustainability, and "the appreciation of natural beauty"; [12] and research into nature conservation and the use of natural resources. [12]

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Nature reserves

Key

Sites

SitePhotographAreaLocation [lower-alpha 1] Public access [lower-alpha 1] ClassificationsDescription
Birdbrook Road Nature Reserve [16] Birdbrook Road Nature Reserve 1.JPG N/Av Greenwich
51°27′39″N0°01′57″E / 51.4608°N 0.03255°E / 51.4608; 0.03255 (Birdbrook Road Nature Reserve)
TQ 413 755
No SINCM [16] The site is a refuge for amphibians in London. Rocky banks of broken concrete (remnants of the reserve's industrial past) provide a habitat for basking lizards. Habitats include grassland, ponds, scrub and rocky banks. Species include great crested newt, palmate newt, smooth newt; slowworm and other lizards; yellow iris, biting stonecrop, crown vetch and cinquefoil; conehead and Roesel's bush cricket. [16]
Braeburn Park [17] Wansunt Pit.JPG 22.3 hectares (55 acres) [17] Bexley
51°26′42″N0°10′16″E / 51.4451°N 0.1711°E / 51.4451; 0.1711 (Braeburn Park)
TQ 510 740
Yes SSSI [18] The site is former sand quarries which have gradually reverted to nature. Habitats include ruderal scrub, grassland and woodland. There is a wide variety of invertebrates, including rare ones such as picture-winged flies. [17] Wansunt Pit, a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest, is in the park. [18]
Bramley Bank [19] Bramley Bank 1.JPG 10.4 hectares (26 acres) [19] Croydon
51°21′10″N0°03′30″W / 51.3527°N 0.05841°W / 51.3527; -0.05841 (Bramley Bank)
TQ 353 633
Yes LNR [20] The site has acid grassland, woodland (mainly oak, ash and sycamore), and a pond. The margin of the pond has yellow flag and flote grass. Wildlife includes nutchatches, song thrushes, purple hairstreak butterflies, yellow meadow ants and pipistrelle bats. [19]

Camley Street Natural Park [21] Pond in Camley Street Natural Park.jpg 0.8 hectares (2.0 acres) [21] Camden
51°32′07″N0°07′39″W / 51.5354°N 0.12751222°W / 51.5354; -0.12751222 (Camley Street Natural Park)
TQ 300 835
Yes LNR [22] This small site is a former coal yard next to the Regents Canal and Kings Cross station. The habitats are woodland, meadow areas and ponds. It has a wide variety of plant and animal life, including bat species, and there are birds such as reed warbler, kingfisher, greylag goose, mallard and reed bunting. [21]
Centre for Wildlife Gardening [23] Centre for Wildlife Gardening.jpg 0.2 hectares (0.49 acres) [24] Southwark
51°27′46″N0°04′31″W / 51.4627°N 0.07534°W / 51.4627; -0.07534 (Centre for Wildlife Gardening)
TQ 338 755
PL SINCB1 [24] Containing both a nature trail and a visitor centre that offers practical advice to city gardeners, this site also has a garden for visitors. The habitats include a mini-beast village, summer meadow, woodland copse, stag beetle sanctuary, wildlife pond and bog garden and flowery chalk bank. [23]
Crane Park Island [25] Crane Park Island 4.JPG 1.9 hectares (4.7 acres) [25] Richmond
51°26′37″N0°22′44″W / 51.4436°N 0.3789°W / 51.4436; -0.3789 (Crane Park Island)
TQ 128 729
Yes LNR, [26] SINCM [25] The island is heavily wooded, and also has a pond and areas of scrub and reedbeds. Mammals include the rare water vole, and other creatures such as kingfishers, woodpeckers, frogs, damselflies and dragonflies are also found there. [25] [26]
Denham Lock Wood [27] Denham Lock Wood path.jpg 6.3 hectares (16 acres) [28] Hillingdon
51°33′57″N0°28′51″W / 51.5657°N 0.4808°W / 51.5657; -0.4808 (Denham Lock Wood)
TQ 054 863
Yes SSSI [28] This site is mainly wet woodland, which is poorly drained and subject to flooding. The most common trees are alder and crack willow, with an understorey of mosses, ferns and herbs. In drier areas there is a hazel coppice shrub layer. [28]
Dews Farm Sand Pits [29] Dews Farm Sand Pits 3.JPG 1.2 hectares (3.0 acres) [29] Hillingdon
51°35′01″N0°28′28″W / 51.5836°N 0.4744°W / 51.5836; -0.4744 (Dews Farm Sand Pits)
TQ 058 883
Yes SINCB1 [30] This site contains mainly acid grassland on the location of what used to be a mineral quarry, abandoned when sand and gravel extraction ended. The hollows and banks are now home to a variety of butterflies, hoverflies, grasshoppers and rabbits. [29]
Farm Bog [31] 1 hectare (2.5 acres) Merton
Yes SSSI [18] This valley mire, developed on a gravelly slope where seepage of acidic, nutrient-poor spring water creates gullies and pools on the underlying clay, provides a small oasis of calm away from the bustle of dog walkers, runners and cyclists. There are no footpaths nor discernible boundaries. Because it is a fragile habitat people are not encouraged to walk over it, however it is within sight of the surrounding paths that traverse Wimbledon Common.
Frays Farm Meadows [32] Frays River in Frays Farm Meadows.jpg 28.2 hectares (70 acres) [33] Hillingdon
51°33′47″N0°28′30″W / 51.5630°N 0.4751°W / 51.5630; -0.4751 (Frays Farm Meadows)
TQ 058 860
Yes SSSI [33] The site has a variety of different types of grassland, ranging from grazed meadows to areas of marshy grassland with tall sedge. Ditches, hedges and a railway embankment provide additional diversity. There is a variety of butterflies, dragonflies and wildfowl. [33]
Gunnersbury Triangle [34] Pond Dippers on Frog Day in Gunnersbury Triangle.JPG 2.6 hectares (6.4 acres) [35] Ealing/Hounslow
51°29′37″N0°16′17″W / 51.4936°N 0.2714°W / 51.4936; -0.2714 (Gunnersbury Triangle)
TQ 201 786
Yes LNR, [36] SINCM [37] This site has been cut off by railway lines since the late 19th century, and it has grown up naturally into birch and willow woods with a meadow, marshy areas and a pond. Mammals include field voles and wood mice, and there are a variety of birds and amphibians. [34]
Gutteridge Wood [38] Gutteridge Wood 5.JPG 25.0 hectares (62 acres) [39] Hillingdon
51°32′46″N0°25′41″W / 51.5461°N 0.4280°W / 51.5461; -0.4280 (Gutteridge Wood)
TQ 091 842
Yes LNR, [40] SINCM [41] The site is a mosaic of woods and meadows, bisected by Yeading Brook. The trees are principally oak, with some ash and silver birch. The northern edge of the meadow has a variety of wild flowers. Birds include kestrels, great spotted woodpeckers and kingfishers. [42]
Huckerby's Meadows [43] [lower-alpha 2] Crane Meadows.JPG 13.0 hectares (32 acres) [43] Hillingdon
51°28′24″N0°24′58″W / 51.4732°N 0.4162°W / 51.4732; -0.4162 (Huckerby's Meadows)
TQ 101 761
Yes SINCM [45] This site on the bank of the River Crane is close to Heathrow Airport. The habitats include grassland, scrub, old pasture, wet woodland, the river and ditches. There are small heath butterflies, and plants such as bugle, water-pepper and ragged-robin. [43]
Hutchinson's Bank, Chapel Bank & Threecorner Grove [46] Hutchinson's Bank 7.JPG 10.9 hectares (27 acres) [46] Croydon
51°19′56″N0°00′53″W / 51.3322°N 0.01478°W / 51.3322; -0.01478 (Hutchinson's Bank)
TQ 384 611
Yes LNR, [47] SINCM [48] The site is a sloping grass bank, which has a wide variety of plants, butterflies and birds. Plants include the pyramidal and man orchids, and the greater yellow-rattle, which is rare nationally. Over 100 species of moth and 37 of butterfly have been recorded. [47]
Ickenham Marsh [49] Blackthorn on Ickenham Marsh.JPG 7.6 hectares (19 acres) [50] Hillingdon
51°33′19″N0°26′01″W / 51.5552°N 0.4335°W / 51.5552; -0.4335 (Ickenham Marsh)
TQ 087 852
Yes SINCB1 [51] The marsh has tall herbs, soft rush and tufted hairgrass, with oak and ash woodland on higher ground. There are herbs such as skullcap, birds including blackcaps, and the long-winged conehead cricket. [49]
Isleworth Ait [52] River Thames at Isleworth Ait - geograph.org.uk - 535417.jpg 3.5 hectares (8.6 acres) [52] Hounslow
51°28′06″N0°19′17″W / 51.4682°N 0.3213°W / 51.4682; -0.3213 (Isleworth Ait)
TQ 167 757
BPA LNR, [53] SINCM [45] This forested site floods regularly. It has more than 57 bird species, including the treecreeper and grey heron. Two rare species of molluscs also live on the island: the two-lipped door snail and the German hairy snail, as well as several rare species of beetles. [53]
New Cross Gate Cutting [54] New Cross Gate Cutting 1.JPG 4.2 hectares (10 acres) [55] Lewisham
51°28′13″N0°02′21″W / 51.4702°N 0.03903°W / 51.4702; -0.03903 (New Cross Gate Cutting)
TQ 363 764
No SINCM [54] New Cross Gate Cutting is predominantly a woodland area with smaller regions of neutral and acid grassland adjacent to areas of reeds and tall herbs. Species include kestrel, great spotted woodpecker and rosebay willowherb. The reserve includes over 170 different species of flowering plants, several of which are locally rare. [54]
Oak Hill Wood [56] Oak Hill Wood.JPG 5.5 hectares (14 acres) [56] Barnet
51°38′27″N0°09′08″W / 51.6409°N 0.1521°W / 51.6409; -0.1521 (Oak Hill Wood)
TQ 279 952
Yes LNR, [57] SINCB1 [58] It is an ancient woodland, dominated by pedunculate oak, hornbeam and ash. There is also an area of meadow which contains common wild flowers such as lady's bedstraw and common knapweed, butterflies including gatekeeper, common blue and large blue, and a number of bat species. [57]
Park Road Pond [59] Park Road Pond 4.JPG 0.4 hectares (0.99 acres) [60] Hillingdon
51°33′01″N0°28′16″W / 51.5503°N 0.4712°W / 51.5503; -0.4712 (Park Road Ponds)
TQ 061 846
Yes SINCB1 [61] Park Road Pond is a large pond surrounded by crack, grey willows and a few young oaks and alder. Species include dragonflies, toad, great crested newt, common frog, damselflies and pond invertebrates such as pond snail and whirligig beetle. [59]
Riddlesdown SSSI [62] Riddlesdown pasture area 2.JPG 1.9 hectares (4.7 acres) [63] Croydon
51°19′18″N0°05′29″W / 51.3217°N 0.09129°W / 51.3217; -0.09129 (Riddlesdown)
TQ 331 598
Yes SSSI, [64] SINCM [65] Forming part of a large chalk grassland area, close to the boundary with Surrey, Riddlesdown hosts badgers, dormice and woodland birds. The site is a rare chalk grassland habitat with its associated species. [62]
Saltbox Hill SSSI [66] Saltbox Hill by Ian-Capper.jpg 6.9 hectares (17 acres) [66] Bromley
51°19′47″N0°01′05″E / 51.3298°N 0.01814°E / 51.3298; 0.01814 (Saltbox Hill)
TQ 407 609
Yes SSSI, [67] SINCM [68] Part of the landscape that inspired Charles Darwin, Saltbox Hill contains downland and chalk grassland with an adjacent woodland area. The site is home to a variety of wildflowers, containing rare species such as pyramidal orchids, wild basil and quaking grass. Woodland species include woodpecker, nuthatch and treecreeper. [66]
Spencer Road Wetlands [69] Spencer Road Wetlands.JPG 1.1 hectares (2.7 acres) [70] Sutton
51°23′02″N0°09′48″W / 51.3840°N 0.1634°W / 51.3840; -0.1634 (Spencer Road Wetlands)
TQ 279 666
No LNR, [71] SINCM [72] The site has reed swamps with wetland vegetation, woodland, a sedge-bed and a pond. Insects include the twin-spotted wainscot and crescent moths, and there are birds such as grey herons, reed warblers and kingfishers. [69]
Sydenham Hill Wood and Cox's Walk [73] Sydenham Hill Wood folly.jpg 28.2 hectares (70 acres) [74] Southwark
51°26′08″N0°04′04″W / 51.4356°N 0.06785°W / 51.4356; -0.06785 (Sydenham Hill Wood and Cox's Walk)
TQ 344 725
Yes LNR, [75] SINCM [76] A Victorian folly and trees such a monkey puzzle show that this site was formerly the garden of a villa, but it also has ancient woodland, rare insects, and a variety of flowering plants, fungi, birds and mammals. [73]

Ten Acre Wood [77] Ten Acre Wood 6.JPG 11.2 hectares (28 acres) [78] Hillingdon
51°32′33″N0°25′10″W / 51.5424°N 0.4195°W / 51.5424; -0.4195 (Ten Acre Wood)
TQ 097 838
Yes LNR, [79] SINCM [41] Yeading Brook runs through this 100-year-old oak plantation, which has an underlayer of hawthorn and blackthorn. and areas of marsh and meadow. Birds include hobbies and kingfishers, and there are invertebrates such as Roesel's bush crickets and long winged coneheads. [77] [79]
Totteridge Fields [80] Totteridge Fields.JPG 6.9 hectares (17 acres) [81] Barnet
51°37′53″N0°14′04″W / 51.6315°N 0.2344°W / 51.6315; -0.2344 (Totteridge Fields)
TQ 223 940
Yes LNR, [82] SINCM [83] This site has hay meadows and hedgerows. There are many butterflies, and flowers include meadow-sweet, hardheads and buttercups. Ditches provide shelter for amphibians. [80]
The Warren [84] The Warren - geograph.org.uk - 1272371.jpg 13.5 hectares (33 acres) [85] Bromley
51°23′33″N0°08′04″E / 51.3925°N 0.1345°E / 51.3925; 0.1345 (The Warren)
TQ 486 681
Yes SINCB1 [86] Once a part of the Kevington Manor Estate, The Warren is now home to green woodpecker and nuthatch, dragonflies and damselflies. Habitats include oak and birch woodland, a pond and acid grassland with a ground flora of bracken and wildflower. [84]
West Kent Golf Course [87] West Kent golf course -Ian-Capper.jpg 6.3 hectares (16 acres) [87] Bromley
51°19′45″N0°02′54″E / 51.3293°N 0.04826°E / 51.3293; 0.04826 (West Kent Golf Course)
TQ 428 609
FP SINCM [88] West Kent Golf Course's habitats include chalk grassland, woodland and scrub. Over 28 species of butterfly have been documented on site, including the rare small blue. Species of rare wildflower are also in abundance, with wild thyme, yellow rattle and swathes of orchids found around the site. [87]
Wilderness Island [89] Wilderness Island 10.JPG 2.7 hectares (6.7 acres) [90] Sutton
51°22′20″N0°09′35″W / 51.3723°N 0.1596°W / 51.3723; -0.1596 (Wilderness Island)
TQ 282 653
Yes LNR, [91] SINCM [72] The habitats on this site are woodland, meadows, ponds and a river. The ponds are an important habitat which have a variety of wetland plants and trees include a black poplar, which provides a habitat for the rare hornet clearwing moth. Butterflies include the speckled wood and holly blue. [89]
Woodberry Wetlands [92] Stoke Newington East Reservoir.jpg 12.0 hectares (30 acres) Hackney
51°34′13″N0°05′19″W / 51.570301°N 0.088585317°W / 51.570301; -0.088585317 (Woodbery Wetlands)
TQ 325 874
YesThe site has a large lake used by many birds such as pochard, shoveller and gadwall. Amphibians include frogs, toads and newts, and there is a wide variety of invertebrates such butterflies, moths, dragonflies and damselflies. A rare species on the site is the red-eyed damselfly. [92]
Yeading Brook Meadows [93] Yeading Brook in Yeading Brook Meadows 1.JPG 17.0 hectares (42 acres) [93] Hillingdon
51°31′44″N0°24′41″W / 51.5288°N 0.4113°W / 51.5288; -0.4113 (Yeading Brook Meadows)
TQ 103 823
Yes LNR, [94] SINCM [41] The site is mainly grassland, with a variety of wild flowers such as the narrow-leaved water-dropwort and common spotted orchid. Invertebrates include Roesel's bush-cricket, shield bug and skipper butterflies, and there are birds such as skylark and snipe. [93]

Sites formerly managed by the Trust

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 The location and public access are taken from the London Wildlife Trust page for each site.
  2. This site is indexed by the London Wildlife Trust as Huckerby's Meadows, [44] but the information page is headed Crane Meadows. [43]

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