The blog has been designed to help you visit the nature reserve and follow a waymarked route. Six route-posts are located with in the reserve and all contain a QR code that can be scanned by a smart phone. Each code will bring up a web page dedicated to that location. You can also see the different pages by selecting the waymarker tabs above.
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Grove Park Nature Trail leaflet Grove Park Nature Reserve is supported by a Friends Group and the Grove Park Community Group The Nature Reserve is an important wildlife site and makes up part of South East London Green Chain Walk and the regional Capital Ring. The reserve is 6 acres, which is approximately the size of…
A pond has been in this location for decades but it was re dug and lined with a bentonite clay membrane, and a wetland was created to it’s left in 2009. The pond, which is fringed by yellow irises, contains a variety of aquatic plants and creatures, including fresh water mussels. The pond is fed…
The deep hollow to your right seasonally can become a pond, and the term for this kind of water-body is ephemeral. This creates a very valuable ecological feature favoured by dragonfl ies, water beetles, and other aquatic invertebrates that take advantage of this fish free habitat. Local people talk of this hollow being the location…
This is the main meadow overlooking the railway and Hither Green Cemetery. Best seen in July, it is one of the only meadows in the borough that has a lowland chalk characteristic. Various flowering plants of the pea family such as meadow vetchling, bird’s-foot-trefoil, common vetch and tufted vetch- all of the pea family – thrive…
The Victorian plum trees visible about here stand in the remains of gardens of Victorian houses, now demolished. These trees have integrated well into the vegetation of the Nature Reserve. Other orchard fruit around here includes apples, crab apples, green gages, bulus plum and sloe. These fruits are frequently the focus of attention of the rare…
In the midst of rampant ivy and more closely bunched tall trees, here competing for the sky in the heart of the Nature Reserve, is a lonely fragment of iron fencing. This is all that remains of the more extensive rear gardens and tennis courts typical of the gardens belonging to houses like that of…
Grove Park Nature Reserve 