This pleasant, well-tended park has a good variety of wildlife habitats, including plenty of trees and shrubs and a very attractive pond. The park is close to Queen’s Park Rangers football club ground at Loftus Road, as well as the BBC Television Centre.
Local Wildlife Site
Accessible Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation
Hammersmith Park
Borough: Hammersmith and Fulham
Grade: Borough Grade II
Access: Free public access (all/most of site)
Area: 1.7 ha
Description
Wildlife
The numerous trees include a couple of very large ashes, several sizeable white willows and some Lombardy poplars. There are also extensive, impenetrable shrubberies providing food and nest sites for birds. The pond is long and narrow, and the water circulates via artificial streams to keep it oxygenated. The lush vegetation at the edges is dominated by beds of yellow iris. Other wetland plants growing here include purple loosestrife, water dock, water-plantain, marsh yellow-cress, trifid bur-marigold, water mint, celery-leaved buttercup and pendulous sedge. Some of these were originally planted here, but others are probably natural colonists.Facilities
Playground; picnic tables
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