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MRS CREEl ar/lnr_details.asp?C=0&N=gunnersbury&ID=190|archivedate=2 February 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref> SINCM[1] |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 hauck.These animals are very rare. Mrs.Creel is funny. |- ! scope="row"|Gutteridge Wood[2] |Gutteridge Wood ||25.0 hectares (62 acres)[3] |Hillingdon
51°32′46″N 0°25′41″W / 51.5461°N 0.4280°W / 51.5461; -0.4280 (Gutteridge Wood)
TQ 091 842 | Yes |LNR,[4] SINCM[5] |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 common kingfishers.[6] |- ! scope="row"|Huckerby's Meadows[7][a] |Huckerby's Meadows ||13.0 hectares (32 acres)[7] |Hillingdon
51°28′24″N 0°24′58″W / 51.4732°N 0.4162°W / 51.4732; -0.4162 (Huckerby's Meadows)
TQ 101 761 | No |SINCM[9] |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.[7] |- ! scope="row"|Hutchinson's Bank, Chapel Bank & Threecorner Grove[10] |Hutchinson's Bank ||10.9 hectares (27 acres)[10] |Croydon
51°19′56″N 0°00′53″W / 51.3322°N 0.01478°W / 51.3322; -0.01478 (Hutchinson's Bank)
TQ 384 611 | Yes |LNR,[11] SINCM[12] |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.[11] |- ! scope="row"|Ickenham Marsh[13] |Ickenham Marsh ||7.6 hectares (19 acres)[14] |Hillingdon
51°33′19″N 0°26′01″W / 51.5552°N 0.4335°W / 51.5552; -0.4335 (Ickenham Marsh)
TQ 087 852 | Yes |SINCB1[15] |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.[13] |- ! scope="row"|Isleworth Ait[16] |River Thames at Isleworth Ait ||3.5 hectares (8.6 acres)[16] |Hounslow
51°28′06″N 0°19′17″W / 51.4682°N 0.3213°W / 51.4682; -0.3213 (Isleworth Ait)
TQ 167 757 | BPA |LNR,[17] SINCM[9] |This forested site floods regularly. It has more than 57 bird species, including the tree-creeper and 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.[17] |- ! scope="row" |New Cross Gate Cutting[18] |New Cross Gate Cutting ||4.2 hectares (10 acres)[19] |Lewisham
51°28′13″N 0°02′21″W / 51.4702°N 0.03903°W / 51.4702; -0.03903 (New Cross Gate Cutting)
TQ 363 764 | No |SINCM[18] |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.[18] |- ! scope="row"|Oak Hill Wood[20] |Oak Hill Wood ||5.5 hectares (14 acres)[20] |Barnet
51°38′27″N 0°09′08″W / 51.6409°N 0.1521°W / 51.6409; -0.1521 (Oak Hill Wood)
TQ 279 952 | Yes |LNR,[21] SINCB1[22] |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.[21] |- ! scope="row"|Park Road Pond[23] |Park Road Pond ||0.4 hectares (0.99 acres)[24] |Hillingdon
51°33′01″N 0°28′16″W / 51.5503°N 0.4712°W / 51.5503; -0.4712 (Park Road Ponds)
TQ 061 846 | Yes |SINCB1[25] |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.[23] |- ! scope="row"|Riddlesdown SSSI[26] |Riddlesdown Common ||1.9 hectares (4.7 acres)[27] |Croydon
51°19′18″N 0°05′29″W / 51.3217°N 0.09129°W / 51.3217; -0.09129 (Riddlesdown)
TQ 331 598 | Yes ||SSSI,[28] SINCM[29] |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.[26] |- ! scope="row"|Saltbox Hill SSSI[30] |Saltbox Hill ||6.9 hectares (17 acres)[30] |Bromley
51°19′47″N 0°01′05″E / 51.3298°N 0.01814°E / 51.3298; 0.01814 (Saltbox Hill)
TQ 407 609 | Yes ||SSSI,[31] SINCM[32] |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.[30] |- ! scope="row"|Spencer Road Wetlands[33] |Spencer Road Wetlands ||1.1 hectares (2.7 acres)[34] |Sutton
51°23′02″N 0°09′48″W / 51.3840°N 0.1634°W / 51.3840; -0.1634 (Spencer Road Wetlands)
TQ 279 666 | No |LNR,[35] SINCM[36] |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.[33] |- ! scope="row"|Sydenham Hill Wood and Cox's Walk[37] |Sydenham Hill Wood ||28.2 hectares (70 acres)[38] |Southwark
51°26′08″N 0°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,[39] SINCM[40] |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.[37] |- ! scope="row"|Ten Acre Wood[41] |Ten Acre Wood ||11.2 hectares (28 acres)[42] |Hillingdon
51°32′33″N 0°25′10″W / 51.5424°N 0.4195°W / 51.5424; -0.4195 (Ten Acre Wood)
TQ 097 838 | Yes ||LNR,[43] SINCM[5] |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.[41][43] |- ! scope="row"|Totteridge Fields[44] |Totteridge Fields ||6.9 hectares (17 acres)[45] |Barnet
51°37′53″N 0°14′04″W / 51.6315°N 0.2344°W / 51.6315; -0.2344 (Totteridge Fields)
TQ 223 940 | Yes ||LNR,[46] SINCM[47] |This site has hay meadows and hedgerows. There are many butterflies, and flowers include meadow-sweet, hardheads and buttercups. Ditches provide shelter for amphibians.[44] |- ! scope="row"|The Warren[48] |The Warren ||13.5 hectares (33 acres)[49] |Bromley
51°23′33″N 0°08′04″E / 51.3925°N 0.1345°E / 51.3925; 0.1345 (The Warren)
TQ 486 681 | Yes |SINCB1[50] | 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.[48] |- ! scope="row"|West Kent Golf Course[51] |West Kent golf course -Ian-Capper ||6.3 hectares (16 acres)[51] |Bromley
51°19′45″N 0°02′54″E / 51.3293°N 0.04826°E / 51.3293; 0.04826 (West Kent Golf Course)
TQ 428 609 | FP |SINCM[52] |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.[51] |- ! scope="row"|Wilderness Island[53] |Wilderness Island ||2.7 hectares (6.7 acres)[54] |Sutton
51°22′20″N 0°09′35″W / 51.3723°N 0.1596°W / 51.3723; -0.1596 (Wilderness Island)
TQ 282 653 | Yes |LNR,[55] SINCM[36] |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.[53] |- ! scope="row"|Woodberry Wetlands[56] |Woodberry Wetlands |12.0 hectares (30 acres) |Hackney
51°34′13″N 0°05′19″W / 51.570301°N 0.088585317°W / 51.570301; -0.088585317 (Woodbery Wetlands)
TQ 325 874 | Yes | |The 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.[56] |- ! scope="row"|Yeading Brook Meadows[57] |Yeading Brook in Yeading Brook Meadows ||17.0 hectares (42 acres)[57] |Hillingdon
51°31′44″N 0°24′41″W / 51.5288°N 0.4113°W / 51.5288; -0.4113 (Yeading Brook Meadows)
TQ 103 823 | Yes |LNR,[58] SINCM[5] |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.[57] |- |}

Sites formerly managed by the Trust

See also

Notes

  1. ^ This site is indexed by the London Wildlife Trust as Huckerby's Meadows,[8] but the information page is headed Crane Meadows.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Gunnersbury Triangle". London Parks and Gardens Trust. Archived from the original on 29 January 2016. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  2. ^ "Gutteridge Wood". London Wildlife Trust. Archived from the original on 25 May 2014. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  3. ^ "Gutteridge Wood". Greenspace Information for Greater London. 2013. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  4. ^ "Yeading Woods (inc Gutteridge Wood)". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 25 March 2015. Archived from the original on 28 January 2016. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  5. ^ a b c "Yeading Brook Meadows". Greenspace Information for Greater London. 2013. Archived from the original on 29 January 2016. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  6. ^ "Gutteridge Wood and Meadows" (PDF). London Wildlife Trust. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 October 2015. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  7. ^ a b c d "Crane Meadows". London Wildlife Trust. Archived from the original on 6 September 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  8. ^ "Find a nature reserve". London Wildlife Trust. Archived from the original on 23 July 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  9. ^ a b "iGiGL the data portal of Greenspace Information for Greater London (map)". Greenspace Information for Greater London. 2013. Archived from the original on 14 January 2014. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  10. ^ a b "Hutchinson's Bank, Chapel Bank & Threecorner Grove". London Wildlife Trust. Archived from the original on 14 March 2014. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  11. ^ a b "Hutchinson's Bank". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 24 June 2014. Archived from the original on 14 March 2014. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  12. ^ "Hutchinson's Bank and Frylands Wood". Greenspace Information for Greater London. 2013. Archived from the original on 29 January 2016. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  13. ^ a b "Ickenham Marsh". London Wildlife Trust. Archived from the original on 5 September 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  14. ^ "Ickenham Marsh". Greenspace Information for Greater London. 2013. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  15. ^ "Ickenham Marsh, Austin's Lane Pastures and Freezeland Covert". Greenspace Information for Greater London. 2013. Archived from the original on 29 January 2016. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  16. ^ a b "Isleworth Ait". London Wildlife Trust. Archived from the original on 4 October 2016. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  17. ^ a b "Isleworth Ait". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 24 March 2015. Archived from the original on 7 January 2014. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
  18. ^ a b c "New Cross Gate Cutting". London Wildlife Trust. Archived from the original on 9 July 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  19. ^ "New Cross Gate Cutting Nature Reserve". Greenspace Information for Greater London. 2013. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  20. ^ a b "Oak Hill Wood". London Wildlife Trust. Archived from the original on 4 February 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  21. ^ a b "Oak Hill Wood Local Nature Reserve". Greenspace Information for Greater London. 2013. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  22. ^ "Oak Hill Wood Local Nature Reserve". London Wildlife Trust. Archived from the original on 27 January 2016. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  23. ^ a b "Park Road Ponds". London Wildlife Trust. Archived from the original on 6 September 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  24. ^ "Park Road Ponds". Greenspace Information for Greater London. 2013. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  25. ^ "Uxbridge Ponds". Greenspace Information for Greater London. 2013. Archived from the original on 29 January 2016. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  26. ^ a b "Riddlesdown SSSI". London Wildlife Trust. Archived from the original on 5 September 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  27. ^ "Riddlesdown Nature Reserve Management Brief 2012–17" (PDF). London Wildlife Trust. p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  28. ^ "Riddlesdown citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  29. ^ "Riddlesdown and The Rose and Crown Chalk Pit". Greenspace Information for Greater London. 2013. Archived from the original on 27 January 2016. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  30. ^ a b c "Saltbox Hill SSSI". London Wildlife Trust. Archived from the original on 5 September 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  31. ^ "Saltbox Hill citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
  32. ^ "Saltbox Hill and Jewels Wood". Greenspace Information for Greater London. 2013. Archived from the original on 27 January 2016. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  33. ^ a b "Spencer Road Wetlands". London Wildlife Trust. Archived from the original on 27 March 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  34. ^ "Map of Spencer Road Wetlands". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Archived from the original on 29 January 2016. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  35. ^ "Spencer Road Wetlands". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 3 February 2015. Archived from the original on 26 January 2016. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  36. ^ a b "Upper River Wandle". Greenspace Information for Greater London. 2013. Archived from the original on 27 January 2016. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  37. ^ a b "Sydenham Hill Wood and Cox's Walk". London Wildlife Trust. Archived from the original on 22 August 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  38. ^ "Map of Sydenham Hill Wood and Fern Bank". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Archived from the original on 20 April 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  39. ^ "Sydenham Hill Wood and Fern Bank". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 24 March 2015. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  40. ^ "Dulwich and Sydenham Hill Woods". Greenspace Information for Greater London. 2013. Archived from the original on 27 January 2016. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  41. ^ a b "Ten Acre Wood". London Wildlife Trust. Archived from the original on 12 May 2014. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  42. ^ "Ten Acre Woods". Greenspace Information for Greater London. 2013. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  43. ^ a b "Ten Acre Woods and Meadows (part of Yeading Woods LNR)". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 25 March 2015. Archived from the original on 6 October 2015. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  44. ^ a b "Totteridge Fields". London Wildlife Trust. Archived from the original on 29 May 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  45. ^ "Map of Totteridge Fields". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Archived from the original on 29 January 2016. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  46. ^ "Totteridge Fields". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 25 March 2015. Archived from the original on 26 January 2016. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  47. ^ "Totteridge Fields and Highwood Hill". Greenspace Information for Greater London. 2006. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  48. ^ a b "The Warren". London Wildlife Trust. Archived from the original on 5 September 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  49. ^ "The Warren in Bromley". Greenspace Information for Greater London. 2013. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  50. ^ "The Warren in Bromley". Greenspace Information for Greater London. 2013. Archived from the original on 29 January 2016. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  51. ^ a b c "West Kent Golf Course". London Wildlife Trust. Archived from the original on 6 September 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  52. ^ "West Kent Golf Course and Down House". Greenspace Information for Greater London. 2013. Archived from the original on 29 January 2016. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  53. ^ a b "Wilderness Island". London Wildlife Trust. Archived from the original on 27 March 2014. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  54. ^ "Map of Wilderness Island". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Archived from the original on 30 January 2016. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  55. ^ "Wilderness Island". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 25 March 2015. Archived from the original on 9 August 2014. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  56. ^ a b "Woodberry Wetlands". London Wildlife Trust. Archived from the original on 8 May 2016. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
  57. ^ a b c "Yeading Brook Meadows". London Wildlife Trust. Archived from the original on 24 May 2014. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  58. ^ "Yeading Brook Meadows". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 25 March 2015. Archived from the original on 27 May 2014. Retrieved 22 January 2016.

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