🌞Midsummer — early morning visits most comfortable; look for deer fawns in quieter clearings
🌿Foraging is at its best in summer here
🐕Dogs welcome — bring water in summer; the site has enough space to find shade on hot days
🌤️ Visiting this summer
🌞Midsummer — early morning visits most comfortable; look for deer fawns in quieter clearings
🌿Foraging is at its best in summer here
🐕Dogs welcome — bring water in summer; the site has enough space to find shade on hot days
Good to know
£Free to visit — no entry charge
🐕Dogs welcome
🅿️Parking
Best for
5 activities
🌿
Foraging
Strong match
Traditional orchard — seasonal fruit, fungi and wild plants
Varies
🦉
Wildlife
Strong match
Deciduous woodland priority habitat
Free
🦅
Bird watching
Strong match
Deciduous woodland — woodpeckers, warblers and woodland birds
Free
🦋
Insect spotting
Good match
Traditional orchard — specialist orchard insects and lichens
Free
🌲
Forest walks
Moderate match
Public woodland
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km
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Walking
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33 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Greenwich Meridian TrailWalking route440 km▾
A long-distance walk that follows the line of the Prime Meridian. Inaugurated in 2009, to coincide with the 125th anniversary of the Greenwich Meridian.
Named routeRef GMTLength 440 kmRegional walking route
Waterlink WayWalking route12 km▾
Walking & cycling route in Lewisham borough, following the rivers Pool and Ravensbourne (Deptford Creek). Forms the northernmost section of Walk Wheel Cycle Trust's National Cycle Route 21 (Eastbourne to the Thames)
Named routeRef WWLength 12 kmPoint-to-pointLocal walking route
Capital Ring (section 04) - alternative for dogs in Norwood GroveWalking route▾
This alternative route is for those with dogs, which are not permitted on any path to the west
Named routeLocal walking route
Capital Ring (section 03) - alternative avoiding steps inWalking route▾
alternative avoiding steps in Beckenham Place Park
Named routeLocal walking route
Lewisham PromenadeWalking route▾
signed walking route along Lewisham High Street
Named routePoint-to-pointLocal walking route
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Cycling
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357 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
LCN 22Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 22Local cycle route
NCN 1Cycling route▾
NCN 1 Cross Peninsula Route
Named routeRef 1National Cycle Network
LCN 22 linkCycling route▾
Named routeRef (22)Local cycle route
LCN 23Cycling route▾
One of the London Cycle Network's "Radial routes in South East London", from Central London via Camberwell, Crystal Palace and Croydon to Purley. The section from Southwark Bridge to Elephant & Castle is now Cycle Superhighway 7.
