Coppett's Wood and Scrublands

Coppett's Wood and Scrublands

Coppett's Wood and Scrublands is a Local Nature Reserve, Borough Grade I, between Muswell Hill and Friern Barnet in the London Borough of Barnet.

The main trees are oak and hornbeam, and ground flora include bluebell and garlic mustard. Breeding birds include woodpeckers, tawny owls and sparrowhawks. A small pond has a clump of yellow iris, and common frogs and smooth newts. Scrublands is a mixture of scrub, grassland and tall herbs.[1]

Coppett's Wood was once part of a vast forest known as Finchley Wood. By the sixteenth century it had shrunk in size and became known as a common, and in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it was used for pursuits such as bare-knuckle boxing, horse racing and pigeon shooting. It also had a reputation as a haunt of highwaymen. In the nineteenth century a sewage works was built on the site. It was closed in 1963, but still has its legacy in the rich variety of plants in the Scrublands. In the Second World War it was used for military training, and several tank traps still remain.[2]

Access to the site is from Colney Hatch Lane and North Circular Road.

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Coordinates: 51°36′31″N 0°09′27″W / 51.6087°N 0.1574°W / 51.6087; -0.1574


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