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  City of London

• Contact:

  Andrew Barnard

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  01753 647358 
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Information about this open space

Burnham Beeches National Nature Reserve is located in South Buckinghamshire just to the west of London.  It is part of the 4,250 hectares of open spaces, parks and gardens in and around London, owned and protected by the City of London Corporation as part of its commitment to sustaining a world class City.  Burnham Beeches is a unique resource managed for the use and enjoyment of the public and and the conservation of wildlife and historic landscape.  Burnham Beeches consists of 220 hectares of wonderful ancient woodland intermixed with heath, valley mire, wet woodland, grassland ponds and streams.  The site is rightly famous for its many veteran pollarded beech trees.  Man’s activity on the site can be traced via its Scheduled Ancient Monuments including an iron age enclosure, medieval moated farmstead and 18th century animal pound.  Today the site is used as a place for quiet recreation and acts as a permanent refuge for a wide variety of plants, animals, fungi and insects.  Burnham Beeches is managed with the active involvement of the local community.  Rangers patrol the site to ensure visitor safety and carry out a wide range of conservation and recreation projects.  The site’s volunteers provide a vibrant link to all aspects of life at the site.  Their involvement includes the provision of the information service, ecological monitoring, and practical conservation projects.  School groups also play an important role as the curriculum increasingly requires involvement with their local open spaces