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    Tylers Common

    One of the largest areas of common land in Greater London

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    Location

    Nags Head Lane, Upminster RM14 1TS, UK

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    Site Summary
    • 28 hectares (70 acres)
    • Common land with free public access
    • Rich in wildlife
    Site History

    The last substantial area of common land in Havering. Also known as Upminster Common, it was successfully defended from enclosure by local people in the early 1950’s, enclosure is when communal land is converted to private fields by landowners.

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    Landscape and Habitat
    • Two ponds
    • Scrub
    • Grassland
    Wildlife
    • Butterflies including Common blue, Essex skipper and Meadow brown
    • Breeding birds including Skylark and Meadow pipit
    Plants and Trees
    • Coarse grasses including common and creeping bents, false oat-grass, and tufted hair-grass
    • Agrimony, bird's-foot-trefoil, common knapweed, sneezewort, dwarf gorse
    • Colonising tree saplings
    • Blackthorn
    • Hawthorn
    • Elm
    • Oak
    • Stonewort and Pondweed in the pond
    Land of the Fanns Region
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    Contact Us

    Thames Chase Trust, Pike Lane
    Upminster, Essex RM14 3NS

    01708 642970
    landofthefanns@thameschase.org.uk

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