Devonshire Avenue Nature Area

Devonshire Avenue Nature Area is a 0.4 hectare Local Nature Reserve and Site of Borough Importance for Nature Conservation, Grade II, in South Sutton in the London Borough of Sutton.

[1][2][3] The site was occupied by three houses which were bombed during the Second World War.

The rubble was then cleared and the area was used as an informal playground until the early 1990s, when it was converted by the Council to be used for nature conservation.

A notable species is the small blue butterfly, which is rare in the borough.

Plants include the nationally scarce ivy broomrape, and kidney vetch and bird's-foot trefoil.