Sue Godfrey Nature Park
A small community-run nature reserve in Deptford on the site of a former pottery works, created in 1984 after local campaigning and renamed in 1994 for environmental campaigner Sue Godfrey.
- Park
- Price: Free
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Did you know
More than 200 species of wild flowers, shrubs and trees have been recorded on the site, a patch of scrub and grassland reclaimed from a derelict pottery yard and later a lorry park.
Local tip
It's tiny and easy to miss among the surrounding streets, look for the entrance off Deptford Church Street. A fully wheelchair-accessible path through the site was completed in 2024.
Finding it
- Address
- Deptford, London Borough of Lewisham, Greater London, England
- Nearest station
- Deptford (National Rail), 366 m away
Details change, so check with the place before you set off.
More places nearby
- Little Nan's BarA maximalist, kitsch cocktail bar inside a Deptford Market Yard railway arch, decorated with Union Jacks, leopard print and knick-knacks in tribute to the owner's grandmother, serving cocktails by the teapot.
- St Paul's Church, DeptfordA Grade I-listed English Baroque parish church on Deptford High Street, designed by Thomas Archer and consecrated in 1730 under Queen Anne's Act for building fifty new London churches, of which only twelve were ever completed.
- APT GalleryAn artist-run contemporary art gallery and studio complex on the banks of Deptford Creek, founded in 1995 by the charity Art in Perpetuity Trust and now housing 42 studios alongside its exhibition space.
- Giffin Square Mural, "His 'n' Hers"A trompe l'oeil mural called "His 'n' Hers," painted on the gable end of a building at the corner of Giffin Street and Deptford High Street facing Giffin Square, showing two chimneys personified with a pearl necklace and a necktie.