High Elms Country Park

High Elms
Site of Special Scientific Interest
A path through the woodland at High Elms Country Park
LocationGreater London
Grid referenceTQ446625
InterestBiological
Area69.1 hectares
Notification1981; 43 years ago (1981)
Location mapMagic Map
Formal flower beds
The former stable block
The Grade II-listed ice well
The Grade II-listed garden shelter, created in 1913
The Grade II-listed grotto

High Elms Country Park is an extensive 250-acre (100 ha) public park on the North Downs in Farnborough in the London Borough of Bromley. It is a Local Nature Reserve,[1][2] and together with the neighbouring Downe Bank, a Site of Special Scientific Interest.[3] The park surrounds High Elms Golf Course, and has extensive woodland, chiefly oak and beech, chalk meadows and formal gardens. It also has a cafe, a visitor centre, nature and history trails and car parks.

The idverde Countryside Team, who manage Bromley owned parks, are based at High Elms.[4]

There is access to this place from High Elms Road and Shire Lane.

  1. ^ "High Elms". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 5 March 2013. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
  2. ^ "Map of High Elms". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
  3. ^ "Natural England Citation, Downe Bank and High Elms" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 October 2012. Retrieved 13 September 2011.
  4. ^ "London Borough of Bromley, Countryside Service". Archived from the original on 26 November 2011. Retrieved 13 September 2011.