Camley Street Natural 🏞 Park is not so much a secret garden but more of a miracle of survival. The area around King’s Cross, St. Pancras has long been cleaned of crack-heads and kerb-crawlers only to become a shrine to concrete monstrosities and shiny faceless office blocks.

The park is a wonderful two-acre wildlife sanctuary wedged between the railway tracks of St. Pancras and the Regents Canal.  Originally zoned as a lorry park this tiny gem has been stoutly defended from those slippery properly developers by the locals with the assistance of the London Wildlife Trust for more than thirty years.

There are kingfishers, dragonflies, frogs and an abundance of creepy-crawlies but to mention a few of the delightful inhabitants to be encountered.  Although you are never far from the thumps, rumbles and wailing of the city, this is a garden of serenity in the heaving megalopolis that is London.  It is well worth a visit and very well worth preserving.