Wandle Valley Wetland is a 0.6 hectare
Local Nature Reserve in
Carshalton
Carshalton () is a town, with a historic village centre, in south London, England, within the London Borough of Sutton. It is situated south-southwest of Charing Cross, in the valley of the River Wandle, one of the sources of which is Carshalton ...
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 Croydon to ...
. It is owned by the Council and managed by the Council together with Sutton Nature Conservation Volunteers.
The site has open water and seasonal pools, scrub and wet woodland. There are frogs, toads and newts, together with
Brown Hawker dragonflies and birds including
blackcaps and
wrens
Wrens are a family of brown passerine birds in the predominantly New World family Troglodytidae. The family includes 88 species divided into 19 genera. Only the Eurasian wren occurs in the Old World, where, in Anglophone regions, it is common ...
.
The entrance in Budge Lane is kept locked and there is no public access.
References
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Local nature reserves in Greater London
Nature reserves in the London Borough of Sutton