Cranebank

Cranebank is a Local Nature Reserve on the east bank of the River Crane in Hatton in the London Borough of Hounslow. It is owned and managed by Hounslow Council.^[1][2] It is also part of The Crane Corridor Site of Metropolitan Importance for Nature Conservation.^[3][4]

The site

Cranebank has water meadows which have a number of locally rare species, such as cuckoo flower and ragged robin. It also has ox-bow lakes, and there are 26 species of butterflies and 12 of damselflies and dragonflies.^[1]

The reserve is part of a park which has a variety of names. An old notice on the site calls it River Crane Park, while a newer one shows it as part of Crane Valley Park, which stretches along the River Crane from Great Chertsey Road to the Grand Union Canal.^[5] It is also shown as part of the six mile long linear Crane Valley Park by London Gardens Online,^[6] while London's environmental information centre, Greenspace Information for Greater London, calls it Dudset Farm Pastures.^[4][7] The London Loop long-distance walk goes through the reserve, and the directions show it as Crane Bank Park.^[8]

Access

There is access from Earhart Way and Waye Avenue Open Space.

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