Introduction
Dacres Wood Nature Reserve is next to the railway line on the site of the former garden of a Victorian house called Irongates. When the former Croydon Canal was discovered in 1990, a pond was formed by digging out the canal bed, with a new pond was created in the north.
- Visitor Access, Directions & Contacts
Directions
London Overground: Sydenham, Forest Hill
Owners
LB Lewisham
- Features & Designations
Designations
Local Nature Reserve
Site of Nature Conservation Importance
- Key Information
Type
Managed Woodland
Purpose
Conservation
Principal Building
Parks, Gardens And Urban Spaces
Survival
Extant
Hectares
2.4
- References
Contributors
London Parks and Gardens Trust