Sidcup's Best Parks and Green Spaces
From the riverside meadows at Foots Cray to the ancient woodland of Scadbury Park, a guide to the green spaces in and around Sidcup.
For a suburban town, Sidcup has a generous amount of green space, much of it strung along the valleys of the River Cray and the River Shuttle.
Foots Cray Meadows
On the south side of Sidcup, Foots Cray Meadows is a large expanse of riverside parkland following the River Cray. Its best-known feature is the Five Arches bridge, a brick bridge over the river that is one of the most photographed spots in the borough. A network of footpaths makes it popular with walkers and dog-walkers.
Scadbury Park
Just to the south, on the boundary with Chislehurst, Scadbury Park is a local nature reserve of ancient woodland, meadow and the moated remains of a medieval manor. It offers some of the best walking near Sidcup and a genuinely rural feel within Greater London.
Lamorbey Park
On the western side of town, Lamorbey Park surrounds the 18th-century Lamorbey House (home to Rose Bruford College) and includes a lake, mature trees and open grass — a quieter, more ornamental green space close to the town centre.
Longlands Recreation Ground
Longlands Recreation Ground, between Sidcup and New Eltham, provides playing fields and open grass for informal recreation, with allotment gardens nearby off Longlands Road.
Abbey Hill Millennium Wood
Planted to mark the millennium, Abbey Hill Millennium Wood adds another pocket of young woodland to the Sidcup area, part of the wider green network that makes the town's edges so walkable.
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