London’s longest nature reserve and a great place to explore on foot or by bike London's Smallest Nature Reserve (GC4Y3WV) was created by -KROP- on 2/26/2014. The hidden w It's a Regular size geocache, with difficulty of 3, terrain of 1.5. Currently Yorkshire Wildlife Trust leases the land from the Forestry Commission; the Trust’s main management focus is the control of sycamore. Barnsbury Wood Fun fact: Islington’s Barnsbury Wood is London’s smallest nature reserve at just 0.35 hectares.
Get us in your inbox Barnsbury Wood is a Local Nature Reserve and Site of Borough Importance for Nature Conservation, Grade I, in Barnsbury in the London Borough of Islington.With an area of only 0.35 hectares, it is the smallest Local Nature Reserve in London It is owned and managed by Islington Council.. If you would like to help open Barnsbury Wood during the summer months, please email Our volunteer group meets every Thursday from 10am to 3.30pm to carry out work on our three nature reserves. Barnsbury Wood is a little hidden gem in Islington and the smallest local nature reserve in London. We're working hard to be accurate. Thanks for subscribing! The children love exploring the woods that are just around the corner from the school. Nestled in Barnsbury, this secret space used to be a vicarage garden until the 1840s. It's a Regular size geocache, with difficulty of 3, terrain of 1.5. Home to a range of wildlife including long-tailed tit, lesser stag beetle, common toad and the sixteen-spot ladybird. In 1996 it gained Local Nature Reserve status, the smallest such site in London. Established as a nature reserve in 1966, the wood forms part of Gormire SSSI and is part of a network of woodland and forestry plantations that stretches for some distance along the Hambleton Hills. 1. Left to Nature, this hidden woodland has become home to a range of wildlife including the long-tailed tit, lesser stag beetle, common toad and the 16-spot ladybird. In the nineteenth century the site was the garden of the vicarage of St Andrew's Church in Huntingdon Street.