This site is a small fragment of ancient oak woodland, surrounded by secondary woodland of oak, sycamore, lime and ash, with a good variety of other trees and shrubs as well as coppiced hazel. Dulwich Upper Wood was declared a statutory Local Nature Reserve in August 2005. The site is managed as an educational nature reserve by The Conservation Volunteers, who have an office on site and employ a full-time warden. On-site facilities include a classroom/interpretive centre, invertebrate friendly shipping container, stag beetle loggery and a small edible garden. College Road Woods, located to the north east and up a steep slope, is unmanaged and access is limited.
Local Wildlife Site
Accessible Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation
Dulwich Upper Wood & College Road Wood
Borough: Southwark
Grade: Borough Grade I
Access: Free public access (all/most of site)
Area: 2.19 ha
Description
Wildlife
The ground flora in the ancient part of this woodland includes wood anemone, bluebell, ramsons and yellow pimpernel, the latter in its only site in Southwark. Other species include male fern, hart's tongue fern and pendulous sedge. A large population of ivy broomrape of around 200 plants is present throughout the wood. A good selection of breeding birds have been recorded including Eurasian hobby, hawfinch, turtle dove and wood warbler. Notably, a tawny owl was recorded in 2010. Fungi are particularly well recorded, with over 200 species found so far. Amphibians such as common toad, common frog and palmate newt are also reported, potentially using the small pond on site. College Road Woods is made up of mostly semi-mature sycamore with abundant ivy.Facilities
Information (on-site classroom interpretive centre); garden; toilets; wheelchair access
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