Repository Woods SE7 - Greenwich
Man-made training landscape established in the early C19 for pupils of the Royal Military Repository at Woolwich to practice and display artillery exercises on purpose-built earthworks and ponds. With formal planting and paths, it also offered publicly accessible pleasure grounds and military showcase, and the setting for the adjacent Rotunda. Military use continues and an angling club uses the main pond. Active management of the site has lapsed and key structures and features are being lost to woodland succession. There is no Conservation Management Plan and the site's future is uncertain.
Site Details
- Designated Site Name:
- Repository Woods
- Heritage Category:
- Registered Park and Garden grade II
- List Entry Number:
- 1001717
- Local Planning Authority:
- Greenwich
- Site Type:
- Gardens parks and urban spaces > Landscape park
Location
- County:
- Greater London
- District / Borough:
- Greenwich
- Parliamentary Constituency:
- Greenwich and Woolwich
- Region:
- London and South East
Assessment Information
- Assessment Type:
- Park and garden
- Condition:
- Generally unsatisfactory with major localised problems
- Vulnerability:
- High
- Trend:
- Declining
- Ownership:
- Government or agency
- Designation:
- Registered Park and Garden grade II, part in SM, part in CA
Contact Details
Christopher Laine 020 7973 3473
