It is owned by Croydon Council and managed by London Wildlife Trust.
[1][2][3] The site is a sloping dry chalk bank, which has a wide variety of plants, butterflies and birds.
Plants include the pyramidal and man orchids, and the greater yellow-rattle, which is rare nationally.
[3][5] Sheep graze on the grassland as part of the Surrey Downs Project.
There is access from Featherbed Lane, Farleigh Dean Crescent and Thorpe Close.