London’s Pocket Parks: Eden Garden, SW4

This is a wildlife park that tumbles down a steep slope in Wandsworth, sitting next to an ancient church.There’s been a church at the top of the slope since at least the 12th-century, and the current church, renamed as St Paul’s was built in 1815 as a chapel of ease to Holy Trinity, Clapham. The church is surrounded by a graveyard and very well mown lawns, but the pocket park I am writing about sits on the other side of the footpath, and has a totally different character from the Eng