Sydenham Hill Wood & Cox's Walk

Sydenham Hill Wood forms part of the largest remaining tract of the old Great North Wood, a vast area of worked coppices and wooded commons that once stretched from Deptford to Selhurst. The wood is home to more than 200 species of trees and plants as well as rare fungi, insects, birds and woodland mammals.

The Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway once passed through the Wood, and you can follow the track bed to a disused and closed tunnel, now a registered bat roost. There is also a Victorian folly, once a garden ornament, hidden in the wood. Cox's Walk is an 18th Century oak-lined avenue that crosses the wood by an ornamental footbridge over the old railway track.

(taken from wildlondon.org.uk/nature-reserves/sydenham-hill-wood-and-coxs-walk)

Bluebell patch - not worth a detour but for bluebell lovers out there, you can plan your existing walk to pass this spot during bluebell season (usually mid April to mid May). There are sprinklings of minor bluebell patches around Dulwich Wood and Sydenham Hill Wood too, again not worth a detour just something to look out for if you're here anyway in season.

Some was paved but good walking shoes still needed. Several grassy/muddy areas