Hutchinson's Bank

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.

Sheep graze on Hutchinson's Bank