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