Anton Crescent Wetland is a one hectare Local Nature Reserve in

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in the

London Borough of Sutton The London Borough of Sutton () is a London borough in south-west London, England and forms part of Outer London. It covers an area of and is the 80th largest local authority in England by population. It borders the London Borough of Croy ...

. It is owned by Sutton Council and managed by the council together with Sutton Nature Conservation Volunteers. The site is operated as a flood storage wash for

Pyl Brook Pyl Brook is a small stream in southwest London. It is a tributary of Beverley Brook, which is a tributary of the River Thames. Pyl Brook has two sources. The 5.3 kilometre main brook rises in Sutton Common in Sutton, London, Sutton and flows th ...

by the Environment Agency, and there is no public access. The reserve has ponds, willow carr and reedbeds, and the ponds never dry out as the rock formation is

Oxford Clay The Oxford Clay (or Oxford Clay Formation) is a Jurassic marine sedimentary rock formation underlying much of southeast England, from as far west as Dorset Dorset ( ; archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a county in South West England on the ...

. The pools and mud provide a habitat for birds such as the

green sandpiper The green sandpiper (''Tringa ochropus'') is a small wader (shorebird) of the Old World. The green sandpiper represents an ancient lineage of the genus ''Tringa''; its only close living relative is the solitary sandpiper (''T. solitaria''). They ...

and

common snipe The common snipe (''Gallinago gallinago'') is a small, stocky wader native to the Old World. The breeding habitats are marshes, bogs, tundra and wet meadows throughout the Palearctic. In the north, the distribution limit extends from Iceland ov ...

. In 2005/6 the Environment Agency funded the installation of a pond-dipping platform and boardwalk. The entrance to the site is kept locked, but the reserve can be viewed from a footpath running along the back fence.

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{{Authority control Local nature reserves in Greater London Nature reserves in the London Borough of Sutton