This large park consists mostly of amenity grassland with scattered trees, with small areas of woodland and wetland providing habitat diversity. The park offers a gateway to nature in an area lacking accessible wildlife sites.
Local Wildlife Site
Accessible Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation
Hillingdon Court Park
Borough: Hillingdon
Grade: Local
Access: Free public access (all/most of site)
Area: 23.28 ha
Description
Wildlife
The park contains a good range of trees, from young to some very old. Around the edges and scattered across the park are native trees and shrubs including beech, silver birch, hornbeam and holly, and non-native species including sycamore, Turkey oak, red oak and rhododendron. Large pedunculate oaks with a ground flora of bramble, Timothy, cock's-foot and broad-leaved dock dominate an open clump of trees in the park. The park's mature trees provide roosting sites for over 100 starlings, a declining species.Some ditches and a damp corner near the bowling green support locally abundant redshank and brooklime with lesser amounts of cuckooflower, hard and soft rushes, watercress and marsh bedstraw, the latter two species being locally scarce.A small wood to the south of Court Drive is dominated by English oak, with English elm and sycamore, over hazel, hawthorn, holly and elder. The ground flora comprises mainly bramble, with common nettle, hogweed and ivy.Facilities
Playgrounds
Starlings © Susy Hogarth
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