Yeading Brook Meadows What to look out for at Yeading Brook Meadows: How to get involved: London Wildlife Trust runs regular conservation Yeading Brook Meadows Local Nature Some areas are left uncut on a rotational • Common osier willow workdays. Reserve is amongst the most important basis to provide over-wintering sites for • Crack willow grassland sites in Greater London, invertebrates and small mammals. • Meadow buttercup To use the site for educational visits and for details of events and other activities please forming part of the old floodplain of the • Common spotted-orchid Skylarks breed in the hay meadow and contact London Wildlife Trust. Yeading Brook. Most of Britain’s lowland • Pipestrelle bat the characteristic warbling song of the hay meadows have been lost to • Noctule bat Contact details: males can be heard from February to London Wildlife Trust 0208 755 2339 or agricultural intensification and urban • Kingfisher July. Once a common species, the e-mail [email protected] sprawl; consequently hay meadows of • Skylark numbers of skylarks breeding in Britain Hillingdon London Wildlife Trust Volunteer this quality are very rare in London. • 5-spot burnet moth has declined by over 50% in the last Group: Roger Taylor 01895 448028 or • Meadow brown butterfly Owned by the London Borough of thirty years, consequently grassland e-mail [email protected] Hillingdon, the hollows and thicket are sites such as this are important How to get there: managed by London Wildlife Trust, but nationally. Bus: 90, Kingshill Avenue Not wheelchair accessible the Borough continue to manage the two Yeading Brook, which becomes the Parking on adjacent roads large meadows, which are cut for hay in River Crane further downstream, Access – open at all times the late summer to stop coarser grasses supports kingfisher, heron, mallard and and shrubs from invading the site and to moorhen. Pipestrelle and noctule bats encourage greater species diversity. also forage along the river and London Borough of Ealing manage an hedgerows. interesting swathe of land north of Kingshill Avenue and east of the Yeading Brook. The site comprises of meadows, shrub, a small woodland and ponds.