Local Wildlife Site

Wildlife

Where the steep banks at the start of this site are shaded by scrub, these provide shelter for songbirds such as robins and blackbirds. South of Cambridge Road, the brook flows between private residences and beneath a railway into a substantial culvert, before emerging into the Yeading Walk Open Space. Yeading Walk can be broadly divided into three sections: first, the amenity area with formal planting, metalled path and amenity grassland; second is the brook itself with its riverside features; and finally the wilder, overgrown areas to the north. The brook re-emerges to the public in Roxbourne Park. Here it runs past amenity grassland, seasonally wet hawthorn woodland on an old allotment site, and riverside scrub and woodland. For some of this stretch, the brook runs within a terraced cutting through an old landfill site. Extensive patches of water-crowfoot grow in the Roxbourne Park stretch of the Yeading Brook.

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