This must be a contender for the most unlikely location for a wildlife site in London. The large roundabout at the junction of Neasden Lane and Dudden Hill Lane has a constant stream of traffic passing around it. However, in the 1980s, the London Wildlife Trust converted part of the roundabout into a nature area, which is accessed from the side near Neasden Parade via a footbridge.
Local Wildlife Site
Accessible Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation
Grange Roundabout Nature Area
Borough: Brent
Grade: Borough Grade II
Access: Free public access (all/most of site)
Area: 0.24 ha
Description
Wildlife
The nature area includes a lined pond, grassland seeded with wildflowers and screening scrub and trees. The pond is seasonal, and is a marsh for some of the year. The wetland plant life is largely dominated by great reedmace, and also includes greater pond-sedge, yellow iris, hard rush and water mint.The grassland plant population results partly from a seed mixture, and partly from natural colonisation. Both common and greater knapweeds flower here, along with salad burnet, fennel and lady's bedstraw. The flowers of both of the knapweed species and the wild carrot attract nectar-seeking flying insects.Facilities
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