| 词条 | Bentley Priory Nature Reserve |
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|image=Bentley Priory Summerhouse Lake 1.jpg |image_caption=Summerhouse Lake |name= Bentley Priory |aos= Greater London |interest= Biological |gridref={{gbmappingsmall| TQ156927 }} |area= 55.1 hectares |notifydate=1990 |map=Magic Map }}Bentley Priory Nature Reserve is a Site of Special Scientific Interest[1] and Local Nature Reserve[1][2] in Stanmore in the London Borough of Harrow, surrounding the stately home of Bentley Priory. It is a 55 hectare mosaic of ancient woodland, unimproved neutral grassland, scrub, wetland, streams and an artificial lake, an unusual combination of habitats in Greater London.[3] HistoryBentley Priory was an Augustinian priory of Canons in the Middle Ages, but it ceased to exist before the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s. In 1775 Sir John Soane designed a new house which stood north of the original priory, also called Bentley Priory. Edgware Brook, a small stream which ran through the grounds, was dammed to form Summerhouse Lake, which was named after the lakeside gazebo of Queen Adelaide,[4] the widow of King William IV, who spent the last years of her life there in the 1840s. The grounds and house were separated when the house became RAF Bentley Priory, the headquarters of Fighter Command during the Second World War. The grounds are now maintained as a nature reserve by the Harrow Nature Conservation Forum, a sub-committee of the Harrow Heritage Trust.[5] The reserveThe name Bentley is believed to derive from the Anglo-Saxon word Beonet, a place covered in coarse grass, which remain a feature of much of the site today, which includes traditional grassland which has never been treated with fertilisers, and hence is rich in wild flowers. The dominant grasses are common bent, red fescue and Yorkshire Fog. Uncommon wild flowers include greater burnet, great burnet and spotted orchid. There are many birds including buzzard, spotted flycatcher, and bullfinch[4] Bentley Priory has a number of woods, including Heriot Wood. Its dominant tree is hornbeam, a species characteristic of ancient woodlands, and it probably dates back to the end of the last Ice Age, the Younger Dryas, 11,500 years ago. To the east is a private deer park.[4] The London Loop goes through Bentley Priory,[6] There is access from Common Road, Priory Drive, Aylmer Drive, Embry Way, Old Lodge Way, Bentley Way and Masefield Avenue.[7] {{commonscat|Bentley Priory}}See also
References1. ^{{cite web|url= http://www.lnr.naturalengland.org.uk/Special/lnr/lnr_details.asp?C=0&N=bentley&ID=36|title= Bentley Priory|series= Local Nature Reserves|publisher= Natural England|date= 1 March 2013|accessdate= 22 January 2014|deadurl= yes|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20140202133831/http://www.lnr.naturalengland.org.uk/Special/lnr/lnr_details.asp?C=0&N=bentley&ID=36|archivedate= 2 February 2014|df= }} 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.aspx?startTopic=Designations&activelayer=lnrIndex&query=REF_CODE%3D%271008775%27 |title=Map of Bentley Priory|series=Local Nature Reserves|publisher=Natural England| accessdate= 22 January 2014}} 3. ^1 Natural England, Bentley Priory SSSI citation {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024044943/http://www.sssi.naturalengland.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1005970.pdf |date=2012-10-24 }} 4. ^1 2 Harrow Heritage Trust, Bentley Priory Nature Reserve 5. ^Harrow Heritage Trust, Harrow Nature Conservation Forum 6. ^London Loop, Section 15, Hatch End to Elstree {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111129120001/http://walklondon.org.uk/uploads/File/leaflets/loop15directions_31052010160251.pdf |date=2011-11-29 }} 7. ^Harrow Nature Conservation Forum, Bentley Priory External links
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