London’s Pocket Parks: Kirkwood Nature Reserve, SE15

This is a newish nature reserve in south London, that opened in 2000 on land that was cleared in the 1970s and 1990s alongside a railway line.A new road was built where the old houses had been in the 1970s, but in the late 1990s, that road was partially built on as well for more housing, and the remainder of the road was landscaped to form the nature reserve and planted with a woodland, artificial pond and some open grass.
It opened to the public in the autumn of 2000.The pocket park was also to