Scadbury Park

An oak tree in Scadbury Park
A bomb crater in Scadbury Park caused by German bombing in World War II
Scadbury Manor's ruins

Scadbury Park is a Local Nature Reserve[1][2] in Chislehurst in the London Borough of Bromley. It is also a Site of Metropolitan Importance for Nature Conservation.[3] It is over 300 acres (120 ha), and is part of an extensive wildlife corridor together with Petts Wood and the Jubilee Country Park.[4]

The early nineteenth-century lodge in the southwest part of Scadbury Park

It has large areas of ancient woodland, especially oaks, and flowers include lily of the valley, which is rare in London. Ponds have London's largest population of protected great crested newts. Much of it is undisturbed grassland,[3] and it also includes a working farm.[5]

The main entrance is in Old Perry Street. The entrance piers still exist.[6] Also a West Lodge to the estate still exists, also on Old Perry Street.[7] The London Loop passes through it from Sidcup By-Pass Road near its junction with Perry Street to St Paul's Cray Road.

  1. ^ "Scadbury Park". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 7 March 2014. Retrieved 23 January 2014.
  2. ^ "Map of Scadbury Park". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 23 January 2014.
  3. ^ a b "Scadbury Park, St Paul's Cray Common, Pett's Wood & Hawkwood Estate". Greenspace Information for Greater London. 2013. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
  4. ^ "Scadbury Park Local Nature Reserve". Retrieved 11 February 2016.
  5. ^ Scadbury Park noticeboard
  6. ^ "Pair of Gate Piers (Opposite School House)". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
  7. ^ "West Lodge, Chislehurst (C) David Anstiss :: Geograph Britain and Ireland". Retrieved 11 February 2016.