Parks and playgrounds directory

Location

Upper Shirley, entrances of Ballards Way and Broadcoombe.

Area

27.1 acres 10.96 hectares

Facilities

An area of natural woodland (including a pond) that has been leased from the London Borough of Croydon and is managed and maintained by the London Wildlife Trust.

Park history

This area of natural woodland was a narrow strip of wood that stretched from Ballards Plantation towards Littleheath Wood in the mid-nineteenth century. Most of the area was purchased at the same time as the Heathfield Estate.