Lavender Pond

Lavender Pond is a 2.5 acre local nature reserve in Rotherhithe in the London Borough of Southwark. It is owned by Southwark Council and managed by The Conservation Volunteers. The nature reserve has an area of woodland as well as the pond.^[1]^[2]^[3]

History

The site is in the northern end of the former Surrey Commercial Docks. The pond is a small part of the much larger former Lavender Pond, where timber was floated to prevent it drying and cracking. In 1928 the entrance to the pond was blocked when the Port of London Authority built the Pumphouse on the site to control the water levels in Surrey Docks. In 1970 the Docks were closed. The area became neglected and the pond was filled in, but in 1981 the pond was re-created as part of a nature reserve.^[3]

Ecology

The reserve has the small wildlife pond, wet meadows and native trees have been planted in the woodland area.^[4] As well as an area for wildlife, the reserve aims to be a haven for local residents and an educational resource. Some areas are left undisturbed while others are used by schoolchildren.^[3]

Pumphouse Educational Museum

The Pumphouse Educational Museum was located in the former pumphouse adjacent to the pond, and housed the Rotherhithe Heritage Museum and artefacts from the Thames shore from Roman times onwards. The museum was closed by the local council in 2011.^[5]^[6]

Access

The pond is unfenced and there is access from Lavender Road and Salter Road, but the wood is kept locked and there is no public access.

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References

↑ "Lavender Pond". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 5 March 2013. Retrieved 15 December 2013.
↑ "Map of Lavender Pond". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 15 December 2013.
1 2 3 "Lavender Pond Nature Park". The Conservation Volunteers. Retrieved 15 December 2013.
↑ "Lavender Pond Nature Park". London Parks and Gardens Trust. Retrieved 15 December 2013.
↑ "Lavender Dock, Lock and Pumphouse". A Rotherhite Blog. 14 June 2014. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
↑ "Peek Frean’s Museum". I Live in SE16. 21 January 2015. Retrieved 24 March 2015.

External links

Friends of Lavender Pond
The Pumphouse Educational Museum - No URL found. Please specify a URL here or add one to Wikidata.

Coordinates: 51°30′21″N 0°02′16″W / 51.5058°N 0.03779°W / 51.5058; -0.03779

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Bexley	Crossness Danson Park Bog Garden, Welling Foots Cray Meadows Lesnes Abbey Woods

Brent	Brent Reservoir/Welsh Harp Fryent Country Park Masons Field

Bromley	High Elms Jubilee Country Park Scadbury Park

Camden	Adelaide Belsize Wood Camley Street Natural Park Westbere Copse

Croydon	Bramley Bank Foxley Wood Hutchinson's Bank Selsdon Wood South Norwood Country Park

Ealing	Blondin Park Fox Wood Grove Farm Gunnersbury Triangle Islip Manor Meadows Litten Long Wood Northolt Manor Perivale Wood

Enfield	Covert Way

Greenwich	Gilbert's Pit Maryon Park Maryon Wilson Park Oxleas/Shooters Hill Woodlands Sutcliffe Park

Hackney	Abney Park Cemetery Springfield Park

Hammersmith & Fulham	Wormwood Scrubs

Haringey	Alexandra Park Coldfall Wood Parkland Walk Queen's Wood Railway Fields

Harrow	Bentley Priory Stanmore Common Stanmore Country Park

Havering	Bedford's Park Cranham Brickfields Cranham Marsh Ingrebourne Valley Rainham Marshes The Chase - Havering The Manor

Hillingdon	Denham Country Park Frays Valley Gutteridge Wood and Meadows (Yeading Woods) Ruislip Local Nature Reserve Ten Acre Wood Yeading Brook Meadows

Hounslow	Bedfont Lakes Country Park Chiswick Eyot Cranebank Duke's Hollow Gunnersbury Triangle Hounslow Heath Isleworth Ait Kempton Pevensey Road

Islington	Barnsbury Wood Gillespie Park Parkland Walk

Kingston	Bonesgate Open Space Castle Hill Coombe Hill Wood Edith Gardens Elmbridge Open Space Ham Lands Hogsmill River Park Jubilee Wood Raeburn Open Space Rose Walk Southwood Open Space Tolworth Court Farm Fields The Wood and Richard Jefferies Bird Sanctuary

Lambeth	Streatham Common

Lewisham	Beckenham Place Park Brookmill Road Burnt Ash Pond Dacres Wood Downham Woodland Walk Sue Godfrey Nature Park

Merton	Bennett's Hole Cannon Hill Common Cherry Wood Cranmer Green Derwent Floodwash Fishpond Wood and Beverley Meads Lower Wandle Merton Park Green Walks Morden Park Myrna Close Oakleigh Way Pyl Brook Ravensbury Park Sir Joseph Hood Memorial Wood Wandle Meadow Nature Park

Redbridge	Hainault Lodge

Richmond	Barnes Common Crane Park Island Ham Common Ham Lands Lonsdale Road Reservoir (Leg of Mutton Reservoir) Oak Avenue, Hampton

Southwark	Dulwich Upper Wood Lavender Pond Nunhead Cemetery One Tree Hill Sydenham Hill Wood and Fern Bank

Sutton	Anton Crescent Wetland Belmont Pastures Cuddington Meadows Devonshire Avenue Nature Area Roundshaw Downs Ruffett and Big Woods Spencer Road Wetlands Sutton Ecology Centre Grounds The Spinney, Carshalton Wandle Valley Wetland Wilderness Island

Tower Hamlets	Ackroyd Drive Greenlink Mudchute Park and Farm Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park

Waltham Forest	Ainslie Wood

Wandsworth	Battersea Park Nature Areas

Westminster	St. John's Wood Church Grounds

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