Crane Meadows

Crane Meadows or Huckerby's Meadows is a 13 hectare nature reserve adjacent to Cranford Park in the London Borough of Hillingdon. It is managed by the London Wildlife Trust,^[1] and is part of the Crane Corridor Site of Metropolitan Importance for Nature Conservation.^[2]

The site is located at the end of a Heathrow Airport runway, and on the west bank of the River Crane. The Trust aims at meadow management with the aid of cows which have been raised next to an airport, and so are used to airport noise. Wildlife include plants such as bugle, water-pepper and ragged robin, and small heath butterflies.^[1]

The site is currently closed to the public but it is intended to open up some areas over the next few years.^[1]

References

1 2 3 "Crane Meadows". London Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
↑ "iGiGL the data portal of Greenspace Information for Greater London (map)". Greenspace Information for Greater London. 2013. Retrieved 20 January 2016.

List of London Wildlife Trust nature reserves

Barnet	Mill Hill Old Railway Oak Hill Wood Totteridge Fields

Bexley	Braeburn Park

Bromley	Saltbox Hill The Warren West Kent Golf Course

Camden	Camley Street Natural Park Greville Place

Croydon	Bramley Bank Hutchinson's Bank Riddlesdown

Ealing	Gunnersbury Triangle

Greenwich	Birdbrook Road Nature Reserve

Hackney	Woodberry Wetlands

Hillingdon	Crane Meadows Denham Lock Wood Dews Farm Sand Pits Frays Farm Meadows Gutteridge Wood and Meadows Ickenham Marsh Park Road Pond Ten Acre Wood Uxbridge College Pond Uxbridge Moor Yeading Brook Meadows

Hounslow	Gunnersbury Triangle Isleworth Ait

Lewisham	New Cross Gate Cutting

Merton	Fishpond Wood and Beverley Meads

Newham	Old Ford Island

Richmond	Crane Park Island

Southwark	Bellenden Road Nature Garden Centre for Wildlife Gardening Sydenham Hill Wood

Sutton	Spencer Road Wetlands Wilderness Island

Coordinates: 51°28′25″N 0°24′55″W / 51.4736°N 0.4154°W / 51.4736; -0.4154

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