which is thought to be some of the last remaining urban habitat for five species of hairstreak butterfly. Amphibians have been seen living in the pond in the south of the reserve including the common frog, smooth newt, and common toad. The grasslands in the northern part contain many ant hills belonging to the yellow meadow ant, which the European green woodpecker often feed on, and the common lizard also uses the grassland to bask in the sun. Many birds, wasps, foxes and local people visit the thicket in the centre of the reserve to eat the plums growing there. The meadow and wildflowers in the north of Grove Park Nature Reserve attract many species of butterflies and moths including the common blue, meadow brown, gatekeeper, red admiral and the eastern burnet moth. Location Grove Park Nature Reserve is located within the Grove Park area and electoral ward of the London Borough of Lewisham, southeast London, United Kingdom. The railway line, which forms the ward and poscode boundary, is immediately southwest of the site, Hither Green Cemetery in Hither Green and the SE6 postcode area, lies west of the site on the other side of the tracks, and the residential roads to the south across the railway line are part of Downham, in the BR1 postcode area. The sheds of Grove Park Sidings are to the south of the site, on the same side of the tracks, and Hither Green marshalling yard is located northwest of the reserve on the opposite side of the railway line. Northbrook Park is also close by, being around to the north of the nature reserve. Transport Grove Park Nature Reserve is about west of Baring Road, part of the A2212 road, on this road Grove Park and Grove Park railway station are around to the south, then further Bromley at around . Baring Road passes Westhorne Avenue part of the A205 or South Circular, after around northward, then Lee railway station after and Lee Green after . There are bus stops on either side of Baring Road near the entrance of Grove Park Nature Reserve that are served by London Bus routes, 261, on its journey from Lewisham to Locksbottom, via Lee and Bromley, 273 bus, which travels from Lewisham to Petts Wood, via Lee, Chislehurst and St Mary Cray, and the 284 bus route on its way from Lewisham to Grove Park Cemetery