Local Wildlife Site

Accessible Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation

Glentrammon Recreation Ground
Borough: Bromley
Grade: Borough Grade II
Access: Free public access (all/most of site)
Area: 3.82 ha

Description

This site is all that remains of much larger area called Glentrammon Park, sold for housing in 1887. It consists largely of chalk grassland apart from a bank with mature beech and oak trees running east-west across the centre and down one side.

Wildlife

The majority of the grassland is frequently mown to provide a space for ball games and other informal activities. The north-west third is managed as a wild flower meadow and contains wild thyme, hairy violet, burnet saxifrage, lady's and hedge bedstraws, dwarf thistle, marjoram and agrimony. A hay cut is taken in autumn once the wild flowers have set seed, but parts are left uncut to promote invertebrate species which overwinter or lay eggs in the bases or stems of the meadow plants.

Facilities

Playground
Dwarf thistle © Mike Waite

Dwarf thistle © Mike Waite

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