Happy Valley Park
Happy Valley Park is a public park in Coulsdon in the London Borough of Croydon. It is owned and managed by Croydon Council. Located in the Metropolitan Green Belt, Green Belt, most of it forms part of the Farthing Downs and Happy Valley Site of Special Scientific Interest. The site is a steeply sided valley with large areas of grassland and wooded slopes. The diverse chalk grasslands on the eastern and north-western sides are rich in many species of herb which are uncommon in London, and the nationally scarce Orchis anthropophora, man orchid and Phyteuma orbiculare, round-headed rampion have also been recorded. Devilsden Wood on the western side has a canopy of Fraxinus excelsior, ash, Quercus robur, oak and Corylus avellana, hazel. Trees such as Crataegus laevigata, midland hawthorn and plants such as Galium odoratum, sweet woodruff are characteristic of ancient woodlands. History The site was purchased in 1937 by the former Coulsdon and Purley Urban District, Coulsdon and P ...
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