🌞Midsummer — early morning visits most comfortable; look for deer fawns in quieter clearings
🐕Early mornings are best for dog walks in summer — visit before 9am to avoid the heat and find quieter trails
🅿️Parking on site — 20 car parks within reach, toilets nearby
🌤️ Visiting this summer
🌞Midsummer — early morning visits most comfortable; look for deer fawns in quieter clearings
🐕Early mornings are best for dog walks in summer — visit before 9am to avoid the heat and find quieter trails
🅿️Parking on site — 20 car parks within reach, toilets nearby
Good to know
£Free to visit — no entry charge
🐕Dogs welcome
🚲Bike parking🅿️Parking🚻Toilets
Best for
8 activities
🦉
Wildlife
Strong match
Deciduous woodland priority habitat
Free
🐶
Dog walks
Strong match
Dogs allowed with public access
Free
🛝
Family friendly
Strong match
toilets; Urban park — family destination
Free
🦅
Bird watching
Strong match
Deciduous woodland — woodpeckers, warblers and woodland birds
Free
🌿
Foraging
Good match
Deciduous woodland — fungi, berries and wild garlic
Varies
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Easy access
Good match
parking, toilets
Varies
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km
🚶
Walking
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9 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Wandle TrailWalking route▾
Named routeLocal walking route
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
LOOP link to Whyteleafe stationWalking route▾
Named routeRegional walking route
Vanguard WayWalking route111 km▾
Named routeRef VGWLength 111 kmRegional walking route
London Loop DiversionWalking route▾
Named routeRegional walking route
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Cycling
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172 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Route 213Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 213Local cycle route
LCNCycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
LCN 75 (parallel Croydon route)Cycling route▾
Named routeRef (75)Local cycle route
Route 212Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 212Local cycle route
Route (21)Cycling route▾
National Cycle Network link route - short linking loop around the Sports Ground / Oasis Academy Arena
Named routeRef (21)Local cycle route
LCN 76 linkCycling route▾
Named routeRef (76)Local cycle route
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Horse riding
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1 public path nearby
Public paths
Ballards Farm Roadbridleway · 583 m▾
Public pathbridlewayLength 583 mSurface gravelPath type: service
