Arkley Lane and Pastures

[1][2] Located on the Barnet Plateau,[3] it is now a quiet country lane with a traditional bank and ditch.

The thick hedges are composed of beech and hornbeam, ash, field maple and magnificent old pedunculate oaks.

[1] The hedge flora are dominated by cow parsley, and the ditches have wetland flowers including water figwort and wild angelica.

A small adjacent woodland, which is probably ancient, has nesting birds, including sparrowhawks, willow warblers and stock doves.

Three fields which have escaped agricultural improvement support wild flowers typical of old grassland, such as sneezewort and pignut.