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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I come from Wimbledon Ray. Actually it is lovely there and I spent a lot of my childhood walking on the common with my Dad, where I developed my love of nature. You are right about the lovely parks, though, and London parks have some wonderful hardwood trees, which I sadly miss now. I couldn't afford to live in Wimbledon now, even if I wanted to. It hasn't changed that much, except for the traffic!!!
North Norfolk is really lovely and has miles of protected coastline. Spent a few hours on the saltmarshes at Stiffkey the other day - blissful, not a soul in sight - just the seabirds.
Gessoo? Well you guessed correctly!
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This has made great reading. I am near Croydon, so I get the usual suburban wildlife. My robin is a joy. I feed him strawberry-flavoured pellets from a tray outside the conservatory door. If I'm late, he will come and sit on the windowsill and look in, head on one side, to remind me !
I'm very near to Croydon Cemetery, so I occasionally get green and lesser spotted woodpeckers at my hanging nut feeder.
How lucky you people in the countryside are ! I'd love to get back to where I came from. Just 35 miles from London I know a disused lane where it is possible to walk for hours without seeing another person or hearing any traffic. Just fields, woods, wildlife.
(Wimbledon - best restaurant in the world, The Ahmed)
Canizaro park is at the side of Wimbledon Common, Ray. Canizaro house and park obviously used to be the home of someone famous. It was a home for old people when I was young and is now a hotel. The park is open to the public and is just wonderful.
http://www.markbutler.co.uk/images/factsheets/canizaro.jpg
found this
Cannizaro House was built in the early eighteenth century as a gracious private residence and, over the years, has been home to a number of distinguished figures, including Viscount Melville, the Duke of Cannizaro and the last Maharajah of Punjab. The beautiful landscaped grounds hold many delightful surprises including a Gothic aviary, ornamental lake and open air theatre and the south terrace offers breathtaking views over acres of sweeping lawns.