Wildlife walk - Sunday 14 June Meet outside Sydenham station (on the Station Approach side) at 2pm. The guided walk will go through Sydenham Wells Park and then go on to explore the Hillcrest Estate Woodland and the Dulwich and Sydenham Hill woods. We'll see a lake and a nature reserve, both ends of a disused … Continue reading Wildlife walk – Sunday 14 June -2pm
Wild Orchids
Devonshire Road Nature Reserve presents an evening talk on 'Wild Orchids' by Tony Canning
Dacres Wood Open day -Sat 28th March
Dacres Wood Nature Reserve Saturday 28th March Dacres Wood will be having its first Open Day for 2015. The Reserve will be open from 1-4pm The Reserve will be open last Saturdays in the month Mar-Oct 2015. You can find us behind Homefield House on Dacres Road SE23 2NX. Also there will also be an opportunity … Continue reading Dacres Wood Open day -Sat 28th March
Nature Walk- Sunday 29th March 2-4pm
Sunday 29 March Exploring Green Spaces: a two-mile nature walk through Forest Hill and Sydenham. Meet @ Forest Hill station, 2pm 'led by TomMoulton & Alona Sheridan'
Nature Walk Sunday 1st March 2-4pm
Nature Walk Sunday 1st March 2-4pm Blackheath and Greenwich Park Sunday 1st March Ponds, Pits and Deer: a three mile nature walk around Blackheath and Greenwich Park led by Tom Moulton tom.moulton@btinternet.com Meet @ Blackheath station, 2pm
London Wildlife Trust Spring Events
Sydenham Hill Wood events spring and summer 2015
Dacres Wood Open Day -Teddy Bear’s Picnic
Friends of Dacres Wood Nature Reserve invite you to a Teddy Bears Picnic for the next Open Day. Saturday 31st May 1-4pm. Dacres Wood Nature Reserve will be open the last Saturday of every month. If you would like to volunteer and help out on the day please contact us or speak with us on … Continue reading Dacres Wood Open Day -Teddy Bear’s Picnic
Tree Walk Sydenham Hill Wood 15th May
Thursday 15th May 2014 19:00-20:30 Sydenham Hill Wood
Heritage Lottery consultation for Beckenham Place Park
Lewisham Council is currently working on a Heritage Lottery bid for Beckenham Place Park. Have a look at some of the preliminary ideas to improve the park. Have your say and talk with the landscape architects to feed back on the ideas and to provide some of your own suggestions for improvements. The consultation event is … Continue reading Heritage Lottery consultation for Beckenham Place Park
Shackleton plays truant in the ‘Silverdale Wood’ (Dacres Wood Reserve)
With thanks to Jan Piggott and Steve Grindlay for the following information. It is well known that Ernest Shackleton passed his schooldays in Sydenham, as commemorated by the Blue Plaque on the large house on Westwood Hill next to St Bartholomew’s Church, now called ‘St David’s’, but originally ‘Aberdeen House’. He was the son of Dr Henry … Continue reading Shackleton plays truant in the ‘Silverdale Wood’ (Dacres Wood Reserve)