Perivale Wood is an 11.6 hectareLocal Nature Reserve (LNR) andSite of Metropolitan Importance for Nature Conservation inPerivale in theLondon Borough of Ealing. It is one of the oldest nature reserves in Britain. TheSelborne Society has managed it since 1902, at first as a bird sanctuary. In 1914 it leased the site and in 1923 it purchased it. The wood was designated an LNR in 1974.[1][2][3]
The site is mainly old oak woodland, with areas of pasture and damp scrub, three ponds and two streams. Plant species includeadders tongue fern,[1] and there have been records of 568 species of moths,[4] 17 of mammals and 115 of birds. The Selborne Society was founded in 1885 as a national body to commemorate the work of the naturalistGilbert White, but is now principally a local body managing Perivale Wood.[5]
The entrance in Sunley Gardens is locked except on the reserve open day on a Sunday in April.[6]
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