Tag Archives: Great North Wood

Grimy Croydon collier who put the wind up an Archbishop

Posted on September 11, 2022 by insidecroydon

SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: It is not only the rich and powerful, and those given the most grand of burial tombs, who always have the most lasting of memorials, as DAVID MORGAN discovered in this tale from an earlier Elizabethan age In … Continue reading →

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Competition: Win a copy of acclaimed Great North Wood book

Posted on February 17, 2022 by insidecroydon

Inside Croydon is delighted to offer our loyal readers the chance of winning a copy of the critically acclaimed and important new social history, The Wood That Built London, by CJ Schüler. The book, as reviewed here yesterday, is “A … Continue reading →

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Storms ahead after Great North Wood fuelled the industrial age

Posted on February 16, 2022 by insidecroydon

There are reminders all around us of what our ancestors have destroyed, and a new book about the Great North Wood reminds us that it is future generations who will have to deal with its effects. By STEVEN DOWNES Could … Continue reading →

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Great North Wood goes virtual to plant the ecology message

Posted on November 30, 2020 by insidecroydon

A wildlife festival has gone online, and an online search engine is offering to plant a tree for you, as PAUL LUSHION, our environment correspondent, reports This is National Tree Week. But like most things in 2020, this year’s events … Continue reading →

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Last chance to enter Great North Wood photo competition

Posted on October 25, 2020 by insidecroydon
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Great North Wood 2021 calendar’s photo competition

Posted on September 16, 2020 by insidecroydon
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Great North Wood photo competition, closing date Oct 31

Posted on October 12, 2018 by insidecroydon
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Festival of the Great North Wood, Sydenham Hill Wood, Sep 9

Posted on August 26, 2018 by insidecroydon
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A stroll through Great North Wood is a step back in history

Posted on November 22, 2017 by insidecroydon

NATURE NOTES: There’s a vital link to a piece of medieval England on our Croydon door step. MOIRA O’DONNELL set off to investigate It was a photograph of a Thornton Heath street sign on Twitter that set me off on … Continue reading →

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£700,000 Lottery grant to save the Great North Wood

Posted on July 6, 2017 by insidecroydon

The Great North Wood is south London’s secret ancient nature reserve and conservation group the London Wildlife Trust has just been awarded a £700,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to help restore and preserve what remains of the woodland. … Continue reading →

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Take a walk in the woods back to the time of the mammoths

Posted on May 26, 2017 by insidecroydon

While Croydon Council appears to be on a mission to concrete over every last remaining pocket of green space in the borough, there are some groups which continue to study, cherish and preserve the scraps of south London’s environmental heritage. … Continue reading →

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Spoon-carving workshop, Beaulieu Heights, Sep 10

Posted on August 19, 2016 by insidecroydon
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Celebrate creepy crawlies on Bug Day, Crystal Palace, Jul 27

Posted on July 23, 2016 by insidecroydon
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Help London Wildlife Trust by taking a short nature survey

Posted on May 1, 2016 by insidecroydon

Do you know your Crystal Palace Park from your Horniman Gardens? Your Nunhead Cemetery from your Streatham Common? Take a short survey from the London Wildlife Trust and you could win a delicious meal for two at The Great North … Continue reading →

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Spring in the air and a spring in the step of Morris Men

Posted on April 16, 2016 by insidecroydon

As the sap begins to rise and spring is in the air (well, was promising to be in the air until this frosty weekend), so the local team of Morris dancers emerge from their winter hibernation. The North Wood Morris … Continue reading →

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Great North Wood guided walk, Grangewood Park, Apr 17

Posted on April 9, 2016 by insidecroydon
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