Category Archives: City Commons

City Commons Meet The Calves day, Coulsdon, Mar 28

Posted on February 20, 2020 by
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Commons rangers get ‘kick in the teeth’ from costly vandalism

Posted on February 15, 2020 by

Rangers and volunteers who work hard year-round to maintain and enhance the ecology of the downland around Coulsdon have been rocked this week by vandalism at Farthing Downs, which is likely to cost thousands of pounds from an already stretched … Continue reading →

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City Commons Winter Tree workshop, Coulsdon, Feb 13

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Here is the moos: Farthing Downs calves are growing up fast

Posted on October 17, 2019 by

Looking for some peace and quiet? You may want to give Farthing Downs a wide berth for a few days. City Commons, the custodians of much of the downland around the south of the borough, felt the need to explain … Continue reading →

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City Commons find there’s plenty of life in their old trees yet

Posted on September 24, 2019 by

The rangers and staff at City Commons, who work on many of the open spaces and pieces of common land in and around Croydon, are celebrating a significant development in their work, with the sighting of a rare moth following … Continue reading →

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Crime and livestock attacks on Farthing Downs cause concern

Posted on July 25, 2019 by

Croydon councillors will turn up in Coulsdon this afternoon on the hottest day of the year, maybe the hottest day ever recorded in these islands, to bask in the sun and in the reflected glory of the decades of hard … Continue reading →

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National Reserve status granted for Coulsdon’s Farthing Downs

Posted on July 12, 2019 by

Croydon will get its own National Nature Reserve later this month, as more than 1,000 acres of chalk downland across Riddlesdown, Farthing Downs, Happy Valley, through to Kenley Common, Sanderstead and Whyteleafe will be formally declared by Natural England as … Continue reading →

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