Lining St Johns Ditch at Stave Hill Ecology Park SE16 6AT
An activity with Biodiversity Action Team (South London)
Activity date: Tuesday 2nd July 2024
Start time: 10:00
Finish time: 16:00
Activity description
We return to Stave Hill Ecology Park to install pond liner and create a weir also in the section of waterway in the park beside St John's Primary School.
Meeting place
On site at the Ditch from 10.00am onwards
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Activity location
Stave Hill, Stave Hill Bacon College Timber Pond Road London SE16 6AX, SE16 6AX
Site description
Stave Hill Ecological Park is a 5.2 acre nature area located on the site of Stave Dock in the centre of the former Surrey Commercial Dock, a few minutes walk from historic Rotherhithe and just over the river from Canary Wharf. br>The Park has been designed and managed to form a mosaic of grassland, woodland, scrub and wetland habitats which support a wide variety of wildlife.
Pick Up Point
Contact
Richard Jedrzejczak
Telephone: 07764655694
Email: richard.jedrzejczak@gmail.com
Website: https://www.tcv.org.uk/lambeth
Please bring
- packed lunch
- suitable outdoor clothes
- suitable outdoor footwear
Further info
The Park is open to the public at all times and has a full time warden. Visitors can enter from Russia Dock Woodland or from entrances around Stave Hill. Our Office is the Green portacabin behind Bacons College car park (the College Gates are usually closed so it is easiest to walk round). Nearby bus routes are 1, 225 & 381, 395. Stave Hill Ecological Park can be found: behind Bacons College, Timber Pond Road in Rotherhithe, London, SE16 6AT. DIRECTIONS FROM CANADA WATER TUBE STATION:- When you come into the ticket hall, take the first exit to the left. This will bring you out on Surrey Quays Rd, by the Sainsburys. Walk past the Sainsbury’s. Turn left onto Needleman St Right at the bottom of Needleman St onto Poolmans St Left at the end of Poolmans St onto Timberpond Rd Turn right onto tree-lined footpath (Dock Hill Avenue) that leads to the conical Stave Hill mound (hill with concrete staircase leading to the top). At the end of Dock Hill Avenue, walk around the base of the hill to the right. The second path you come to as you walk around the base of the mound will take you down to where we are working at the ditch, just beside the school.
Site Facilities
- Toilets
- Nearest Toilets - in SHED & in portacabin
