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Gunnersbury Triangle is a Local nature reserve in the London boroughs of Ealing and Hounslow, immediately to the east of Gunnersbury. It was saved when, for the first time in Britain, a public inquiry in 1983 ruled that a planned development of the land could not go ahead because of its value for nature. It opened as a nature reserve in 1985. The area consists mainly of secondary birch woodland, with some locally uncommon willow carr or wet woodland and a small area of acid grassland along the track of the former Acton curve railway. The reserve supports a varied population of plants, birds, amphibians, insects and other wildlife. It is managed by the London Wildlife Trust.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gunnersbury Triangle )〕 The reserve has free admission. It is maintained by London Wildlife Trust staff with the help of volunteers. There is a varied programme of activities including wildlife walks, fungus forays, open days and talks. The reserve is used regularly by school and community groups, and for team-building work days by corporate groups. Its entrance, with a wooden five-bar gate flanked by hedges, is on the south of Bollo Lane, a few yards from Chiswick Park tube station. ==History== The area is shown on 19th-century maps as orchards and gravel quarries. The triangular area now occupied by the reserve was delineated by three railway lines, two belonging to the District Line (now part of London Underground's sub-surface lines), and the now defunct London and South Western Railway (LSWR). There was once a bridge into the triangle from the west, and in the 1940s it was used as railway allotments (vegetable gardens), but when London Transport's Acton Works was built, the bridge was abandoned. The area, thus disused, was colonised naturally by grasses and trees in a "secondary succession".〔(Geograph: Gunnersbury Triangle Nature Reserve ). Alan Murray-Rust. 22 December 2010. Retrieved 17 January 2012.〕〔Goode, 2014.〕 In 1981, the site was proposed for commercial development, provoking an energetic campaign by the Chiswick Wildlife Group, formed in March 1982, which became the local branch of the London Wildlife Trust.〔 The threat to the site was one of the first to be highlighted by the London Wildlife Trust on its formation in October 1981.〔Sands, 2012.〕 The campaign led to a Public Inquiry in July 1983, which determined that the site should be devoted to nature conservation. This was the first time anywhere in the United Kingdom that a Public Inquiry had ruled in favour of nature in a city, and the Gunnersbury Triangle example became a test case.〔 According to the New Scientist, writing in 1985, "the celebrated Gunnersbury Triangle – an undisturbed piece of woodland surrounded by railways including the District Line .. was bought and preserved by Hounslow borough from British Rail with a GLC grant of £58 000. The GLC also gave expert ecological advice when Hounslow council contested a public inquiry to save the Triangle."〔Paul Simons. (''A city fit for wildlife.'' ) New Scientist. 28 March 1985. Pages 30–33.〕 The London Wildlife Trust has managed the Gunnersbury Triangle on behalf of the London Borough of Hounslow since 1985.〔 The London Borough of Hounslow formally designated the Gunnersbury Triangle as a Local Nature Reserve in 1987.〔 The London Borough of Ealing formally designated the part of the Gunnersbury Triangle that lies in Ealing as a Local Nature Reserve in 1991.〔 In 1993, recalling the dramatic events, the President of the London Natural History Society, David Bevan said: Bevan quoted Goode as saying "''It had none of the features which, in traditional nature conservation terms, would make it a place worth preserving''", going on to explain this remark as follows: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gunnersbury Triangle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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