Local Wildlife Site

Wildlife

The largest area of woodland within the Country Park is well-structured and undisturbed with a diverse ground flora such as lady-fern, soft shield-fern, heath groundsel and creeping jenny, all of which are notable in London. Where it passes through the site, the Turkey Brook is lined by old oaks and other trees. Large areas of unimproved and acid grassland occur, divided by native hedgerows. These meadows contain a good range of plants including heath woodrush, devil's-bit scabious, musk-mallow and harebell, which are uncommon in London, along with cuckoo flower, tormentil, sheep's-sorrel, burnet-saxifrage, pignut and field scabious. The last three of these are scarce in Enfield. Clay Hill Pasture is part of a horse-grazed field containing typical unimproved London Clay grassland. The rich meadow community includes substantial populations of devil's-bit scabious, harebell, betony, musk-mallow and pepper-saxifrage. The invertebrate fauna includes the small heath and common blue butterflies.

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