Crane Park Island

Crane Park Island is a Local Nature Reserve in Twickenham in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.

It is also part of The Crane Corridor Site of Metropolitan Importance for Nature Conservation.

The Ogden Standard on 9 July 1915 reported that there was a huge explosion heard for 10 miles (16 km).

[5] In 1927 the licence to manufacture gunpowder was withdrawn, and part of the site was sold to Twickenham Council.

Mammals include the rare water vole, and other animals such as kingfishers, woodpeckers, frogs, damselflies and dragonflies are also found there.