Beaulieu Heights and Stambourne Woodland Walk

The dreaded seasonal head cold and cough is getting very boring now so I wrapped up warm this morning and went to the small woodlands at Beaulieu Heights (Upper Norwood) and further along Auckland Road the undulating Stambourne Woodland, the drawing below is of the imposing St John the Evangelist on Auckland Road, there are also a number of magnificent Victorian Gothic Villas situated around this location and a house with a blue plaque for Raymond Chandler, author of the Big Sleep, who lived there from 1900 - 1904 while he studied at Dulwich College. I really like these miniature wilderness sites, tucked beneath the ridges of Norwood and full of secretive trees and foxes, they must provide habitats as well as corridors for lots of wildlife. I saw only three other people, right in the middle of the day not far from the centre of Crystal Palace.

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Graphic novel pages 12 & 13.