The Land at Spring Gardens has been an open space since the 1960s and is closely associated with the nearby Vauxhall City Farm, which attracts visitors and volunteers from a across South London. This site has been further extended to include the adjacent area of open space, sometimes referred to as Vauxhall pleasure gardens. This is located on the site of the original Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens’, a private garden venue dating from 1661 that closed in 1859. After the Second World War the site was cleared of housing and laid out as a public open space, with a network of paths, grass mounds and trees.
Local Wildlife Site
Accessible Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation
Land at Spring Gardens (Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens)
Borough: Lambeth
Grade: Local
Access: Free public access (all/most of site)
Area: 3.35 ha
Description
Wildlife
Spring Gardens contains several paddocks, used by the City Farm, which are composed of grassland where a number of colourful wild flowers can be seen including red dead-nettle, cow parsley, creeping cinquefoil, bluebell and common mallow. Vauxhall pleasure gardens is mostly laid out to amenity grassland with young-to semi-mature mostly non-native scattered trees. A children's play space and roadside planting area located in the northern part adds biological diversity in the form of herbaceous and edible planting. Bats have been recorded foraging in this area and the site is likely to provide local value for widespread but declining species of birds and invertebrates.Facilities
Play space; multi-use games area; roadside planting
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