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Visit 12 nature reserves along the Green Chain Walk Take a walk on the wild side The Wider Landscape This guide introduces you to Now it’s over to you. Whatever the Sensitive sites such as these cannot time of year you will find survive in isolation. The wider landscape some of the very best nature and something to delight you. Use the wildlife sites on the Green Chain. of the Green Chain - some 2,500 hectares checklist to tick off the sites you of open space in south east London (the have visited and anything that Each one has something special about it. All have been selected size of 3,400 football pitches!), provides inspired you on your visit! an important role in their survival. As because they are easy to get to by train or bus. As well as maps well as acting as a buffer to urban for each site we have also provided information that will make Crossness page 6 - 7 encroachment and the increasing your visit more interesting. demand for more housing, the Green Lesnes Abbey Woods page 8 - 9 Chain supports the mobility of wildlife so that alternative sources of food can be Take a walk found within the wider landscape. Oxleas Woods page 10 -11 Working together Maryon Wilson Park page 12 - 13 In the future our open spaces will need to be more resilient to threats such as on the wildside Sutcliffe Park page 14 - 15 climate change, floods, droughts and sea level rises. The vision of a connected and Grove Park page 16 - 17 robust living landscape can only be achieved by organisations working together. Now in its 40th year, the Green Downham Woodland Walk page 18 - 19 Chain was established to protect and enhance these open spaces and our Beckenham Place Park page 20 - 21 partnership will continue to encourage such cooperation so that present and Dulwich Upper Wood page 22- 23 future generations can discover and enjoy the hidden nature that is on the Sydenham Hill Wood page 24 - 25 doorstep. Take nothing but pictures One Tree Hill page 26 - 27 Twelve of the sites listed are Local Nature Reserves (LNR’s) which means they are Nunhead Cemetery page 28 - 29 actively managed to care for and protect the rare plants and animals within it. You Whyte’s Woodland page 30 - 31 will be entering their home, so please respect this by “taking nothing but pictures and leaving nothing but footprints”. Give your body and mind a break from the stress of everyday urban life. r Thames Rive Thamesmead The South East London Green Chain Riverside Crossway Lake Thames footpath and cycle route Manorway Crossway Crossness Green Park Beam with its 12 nature reserves is well Engine Thamesmead 1 Crossness EASTERN WAY Nature Reserve (LNR) Birchmere Southmere served by numerous train stations Park Southmere T Park h A2016 a Lake m e s Capital Ring f Erith Marshes o o A2016 t p a t h a Yarton Way n d c y Thames Barrier c l e r o so visiting these amazing spaces has u The Ridgeway t e DLR Thames footpath and cycle route Capital Ring A206 Woolwich WOOLWICH ROAD Belvedere Abbey Wood Railway Station Woolwich Arsenal Railway Station never been easier. Railway Station Abbey Ruins Erith Woolwich Dockyard Railway Station Abbey Wood Belvedere Plumstead Gilberts Pit Railway Station 2 Charlton Franks Park Railway Station Woolwich A2041 Road Rd Lesnes Abbey (LNR) Pembroke Road 4 Barracks L New Plumstead o n ROAD d Fossil Bed ERITH Erith Railway o n L Great o Thorntree Station o Maryon p Woolwich Plumstead Common Hurst Wilson Park Bartletts Bostall Heath A206 Woods Pond BOSTALL HILL WOOLWICH ROAD DLR TON PARK Road Greenwich CHARL ROAD Long Common leagh WICKHAMBostal Woods Charlton Park Winns Lane LANE Greenwich Woolwich Railway Station Common Plumstead Cemetery ACADEMY ROAD East Wickham Open Space A209 A207 Hornfair Park Shrewsbury Park Shooters Hill Eltham Common Woodlands SHOOTERS Farm Severndroog HILL Castle Welling Nunhead Railway Station Railway Station 3 BELEGROVE ROAD Jackwood Oxleas Oxleas Wood (LNR) A2214 Meadows Brockley Rochester Way 12 Railway Station Welling Way Eltham Park Shepherdleas Falconwood Nunhead Cemetery North Wood Railway Station B219 Peckham Rye Park Eltham Railway B238 Crofton Park Station FOREST Railway Station Sutcliffe Park5 Riefield Road North Dulwich Capital Ring Railway Station (LNR) Eltham HILL East BEXLEY 11 ROAD ELTHAM Dulwich Dulwich ROAD One Tree Hill HIGH STREET BEXLEY To help you find your Village B318 A210 Avery Hill Park Honor Oak Park Railway Station way and make it even Forest Hill A2216 Conduit C Eltham University O L Palace Meadows L Campus E easier to visit the G E A20 R O A SIDCUP D Horniman COMMON Cox’s A205 Horn Park ROAD Middle DULWICH Gardens Green Chain Walk Walk Middle Park Avenue Park Sparrows Lane LONDON ROAD The Tarn FOOTSCRAY ROAD Bird Sanctuary HILL West Dulwich Forest Hill ROAD LANE attractions a pack of Railway Station Railway Station 6 AVERY 10 Grove Park Mottingham Railway Station Sydenham Nature Reserve GREEN Hill Wood Na- Hither Green ROAD Fairy Hill twelve weather-proof route cards is available, ture Reserve Park A2216 Cemetery COURT Sydenham Hill New Eltham Railway Station Railway Station Downham Mottingham ROAD including illustrated maps, written directions and Woodland Walk PARK Southwood Road (LNR) New Eltham Sydenham 7 GROVE CHINBROOK ROAD Wells Bell Green A21 Park Grove Park A211 features of special interest along the way. The pack Railway Station Chinbrook Lower Sydenham Meadows Railway Station BROMLEY Marvels A20 Wood costs £3.50 including postage and packaging. CRYSTAL PALACE ROAD SYDENHAM 9 ROAD Beckenham Hill Marvels Railway Station Wood PARK Lower Sydenham Dulwich Railway Station Upper ROAD Alexandra Downham Elmstead Wood Wood Recreation Whytes Penge East Ground Beckenham New Street Hill Woodland Railway Station 8 Place Park (LNR) To obtain a copy paying by debit/credit card, Norwood ANERLEY HILL LANE ASH Cator Road New Beckenham BROMLEY Elmstead Lane ring 020 8921 5599 between 9.00 am and 5.30pm. Lennard Railway Station Crystal Palace PENGE Road BURNT Park Avenue Railway Station ROAD HILL Penge West HIGH Elmstead Woods Thicket Road Railway Station Plaistow END Cator Warren Monday to Thursday or 9.00am - 4.30pm on Friday. STREET Railway Station Park London Chislehurst Road Elstree Lane SOUTH Avenue Hill Railway Station Hall A2212 A208 Ravensbourne For further information call the info line 020 8921 Kent House Kings Railway Station A21 Sundridge Park Railway Station Railway Station A214 Beckenham Junction Railway Station 5028 or visit www.greenchain.com. Section 1 of the Green Chain Walk Crossness Crossness nature reserve is an Address Barn owls Norman Road important oasis for wildlife of all Belvedere DA16 6JY descriptions. A relic of the ancient have been 07747 643958 Thames grazing marshes, its karen.sutton@ breeding thameswater.co.uk surroundings include grassland, reed beds, ponds and scrubland. These here since Opening habitats provide homes and feeding Monday - Sunday 2005. Always open areas for water voles as well as Station resident and migrant birds’ Winter Abbey Wood visitors include Redwing and Belvedere Fieldfare. The site also supports a wide Bus variety of wide habitat and insects Train: Abbey Wood Take the bus 229 including the rare Shrill Carder Bee. from stop G towards Thamesmead To: Nickelby Close stop Roger - volunteer ND and walk through “ This site is one of London’s secret gems. As a volunteer I help out Manorway Green to E Thames Path with tasks like keeping the pathways open and cutting the AS TE reedbeds. It’s incredibly rewarding when you look up and catch RN WA Transport for London Journey Planner sight of a rare bird!”. Y For travel information from your home to the nature reserve ring 0343 222 1234 or view journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk 6 7 Section 1 and 2 of the Green Chain Walk Lesnes Abbey Woods Lesnes Abbey is called an ancient Address Abbey Road, woodland, which means it’s been Belvedere, DA17 5DL around for over 400 years at least. 020 8303 7777 Within the reserve you will find jparks&openspaces @bexley.gov.uk ponds, glades, lowland heath (very www.visitlesnes.co.uk rare in London) and even a fossil bed with sharks teeth! The site is known Opening Monday - Sunday for its wild spring flowers that The site is open at include the largest colony of native all times. wild daffodil in SE England together Station with spectacular displays of Abbey Wood Bluebells and Wood Anemones. Buses Bus: Take bus B11 from stop E towards Bexleyheath. To: Abbey Road, stop W Sandra - Conservation Volunteer “These days people often feel cut off from nature, especially living in a big city like London. Here at the nature reserve I help out with Transport for London tasks like coppicing (where you cut the tree back to ground level) Journey Planner and tree planting- it gives me a real sense of satisfaction. Come and For travel information from your home to the nature reserve join us!” ring 0343 222 1234 or view journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk 8 9 Section 5, 6 and 7 of the Green Chain Walk Oxleas Woodlands An impressive ancient woodland Address SHOO TERS HILL D The Oxleas Woods that features, Hazel, Sweet Chestnut A O Centre R and some very tall Oak trees. It’s L Crown Woods Lane L A DOVE H S London SE18 3JA ELTHAM N R R managed for nature and is thought L D OAD L G COMMON H E T R C 020 8854 6885 O R W W L O I W N by ecologists to be one of the most E N K W parks@royal O O D S greenwich.gov.uk important sites for wildlife in the LA N E whole of London.