Wilderness Island

The River Wandle with Wilderness Island on the right

Wilderness Island is a 2.7 hectare island between two arms of the River Wandle in Carshalton in the London Borough of Sutton. It is designated as a Local Nature Reserve and a Site of Metropolitan Importance for Nature Conservation. The site is owned by Sutton Council and managed by the London Wildlife Trust.^[1]^[2]^[3]

The island was industrial from the seventeenth century, with watercourses for local mills, and was later the site of a pleasure garden. A fish pond still survives.^[3] Other habitats are woodland, meadows and river. Trees include a black poplar, and there are birds such as the woodpecker, kingfisher and grebe. There is a variety of butterflies including the speckled wood and holly blue, and the rare hornet clearwing moth. The ponds are an important habitat which have a variety of wetland plants.^[1]^[4]

There is access from River Gardens.^[1]

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References

1 2 3 "Wilderness Island". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 8 March 2013. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
↑ "Map of Wilderness Island". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
1 2 "Wilderness Island". London Parks and Gardens Trust. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
↑ "Wilderness Island". London Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 28 March 2014.

Local nature reserves in Greater London

Barking & Dagenham	Beam Valley Beam Valley (Environment Agency) Dagenham Village Churchyard Eastbrookend Country Park Mayesbrook Park South Parsloes Park Squatts Ripple Nature Reserve Scrattons Ecopark and extension The Chase - Barking

Barnet	Big Wood & Little Wood Brent Reservoir/Welsh Harp Coppetts Wood Glebelands Moat Mount Open Space Oak Hill Wood Rowley Green Common Scratchwood Totteridge Fields

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

List of London Wildlife Trust nature reserves

Barnet	Mill Hill Old Railway Oak Hill Wood Totteridge Fields

Bexley	Braeburn Park

Bromley	Saltbox Hill The Warren West Kent Golf Course

Camden	Camley Street Natural Park Greville Place

Croydon	Bramley Bank Hutchinson's Bank Riddlesdown

Ealing	Gunnersbury Triangle

Greenwich	Birdbrook Road Nature Reserve

Hackney	Woodberry Wetlands

Hillingdon	Crane Meadows Denham Lock Wood Dews Farm Sand Pits Frays Farm Meadows Gutteridge Wood and Meadows Ickenham Marsh Park Road Pond Ten Acre Wood Uxbridge College Pond Uxbridge Moor Yeading Brook Meadows

Hounslow	Gunnersbury Triangle Isleworth Ait

Lewisham	New Cross Gate Cutting

Merton	Fishpond Wood and Beverley Meads

Newham	Old Ford Island

Richmond	Crane Park Island

Southwark	Bellenden Road Nature Garden Centre for Wildlife Gardening Sydenham Hill Wood

Sutton	Spencer Road Wetlands Wilderness Island

Coordinates: 51°22′25″N 0°09′28″W / 51.3736°N 0.1578°W / 51.3736; -0.1578

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