Dacres Wood
Dacres Wood is a small local nature reserve in Forest Hill in the London Borough of Lewisham. It is owned and managed by Lewisham Council. The site is a remnant of the former Croydon Canal, which later became the garden of a Victorian house.- Type: Nature reserve
- Description: nature reserve in Lewisham
- Also known as: “Dacres Wood Nature Reserve”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Horniman Museum and Crystal Palace railway station.
Horniman Museum
Museum
Photo: No Swan So Fine, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Horniman Museum and Gardens is a museum in Forest Hill, London, England. Commissioned in 1898, it opened in 1901 and was designed by Charles Harrison Townsend in the Modern Style.
Crystal Palace railway station
Railway station
Photo: Svetlopisac, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Crystal Palace is an interchange station between the Windrush line of the London Overground and National Rail services operated by Southern, situated in the London Borough of Bromley in south London.
Forest Hill railway station
Railway station
Photo: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Forest Hill is an interchange station between the Windrush line of the London Overground and National Rail services operated by Southern, located in Forest Hill in the London Borough of Lewisham.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include South London and Lambeth.
South London
Photo: Wjh31, Public domain.
South London is generally defined as any part of London that is south of the river Thames. However, this guide only covers the outer South London boroughs, namely Bromley, Bexley, Croydon, Kingston-upon-Thames, Sutton, and parts of Merton.
Lambeth
Photo: brodiepunk, CC BY 2.0.
Lambeth is a borough of inner south-west London. Here is the official residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth Palace, St. Thomas's Hospital and County Hall.
Beckenham
Suburb
Photo: Philip Talmage, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Beckenham is a town in London, England, within the London Borough of Bromley. Prior to 1965, it was part of Kent. It is situated north of Elmers End and Eden Park, east of Penge, south of Lower Sydenham and Bellingham, and west of Bromley and Shortlands, and 8.4 miles south-east of Charing Cross.
Dacres Wood
- Categories: forest and recreation area
- Location: Lewisham, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.432° or 51° 25′ 55″ northLongitude
-0.0521° or 0° 3′ 8″ westOpen location code
9C3XCWJX+R4OpenStreetMap ID
way 256741614OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserveOpenStreetMap feature
natural=woodWikidata ID
Q16988368
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