A relic of the Great North Wood
Sydenham Hill Nature Reserve
A mere 4.5% of the area of London is woodland. The Great North Wood once ran from Croydon to Camberwell. Now little remains. One of the larger fragments is made up of Sydenham Hill Wood and Dulwich Woods.
The track of a disused railway runs through the wood ending at the mouth of a tunnel. The trains once ran from Peckham to Crystal Palace.
The London Wildlife Trust manages a local nature reserve in Sydenham Hill Wood. The wood is home to a great variety of trees, flowering plants, birds, fungi, insects and some woodland mammals.
Submitted by: Andrew Hunt, 20 January 2007
