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Today tonight visit wilderness island
Wilderness Island is a 2.7 hectare island between two arms of the River Wandle in Carshalton in the London Borough of Sutton. It is designated as a Local Nature Reserve and a Site of Metropolitan Importance for Nature Conservation. The site is owned by Sutton Council and managed by the London Wildlife Trust.
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The island was industrial from the seventeenth century, with watercourses for local mills, and was later the site of a pleasure garden. A fish pond still survives. Other habitats are woodland, meadows and river. Trees include a black poplar, and there are birds such as the woodpecker, kingfisher and grebe. There is a variety of butterflies including the speckled wood and holly blue, and the rare hornet clearwing moth. The ponds are an important habitat which have a variety of wetland plants.
There is access from River Gardens.