Rowley Green Common

Rowley Green Common is a six hectare Local Nature Reserve[1][2] and a Site of Importance Metropolitan for Nature Conservation in Arkley, north London.

[5] It is mainly woodland and heathland, although the most important habitat is the peat bog, one of very few left in London.

The site has hedges at least three hundred years old, and a large pond is also of botanical interest.

Gravel was once dug on it and this led to the formation of ponds and bog hollows.

Rowley Green was obtained as public open space in 1934 when Barnet Urban District Council bought the land from the Lord of the Manor.