Warren Farm is a rewilded 61-acre urban meadow in Southall, London, part of Brent River Park and located in Norwood Green in the borough of Ealing. This beautiful green space is home to an abundance of common, rare and endangered species - such as skylarks, barn owls, rare clovers, beewolves, yarrow pugs, bats, slow-worms and so many more. Yet it has been under threat of development for a number of years.

Warren Farm was a primaeval marshy woodland cleared by early humans. Bronze Age and Iron Age workings on the land have been found. By the Elizabethan Period, Warren Farm was a tenancy of the Osterley Park Estate and in the Victorian period was a working farm run by George Trumper and his family. In 1925, the Countess of Jersey sold Warren Farm to the London County Council for sports usage. It was also run as a farm by the local St Bernard’s Psychiatric Hospital until 1961. The LCC and its successor body ILEA (Inner London Education Authority) used the land as a variety of sports pitches for schoolchildren and clubs. In the 1960s the now derelict changing rooms were erected and football, cricket, netball, tennis, shot-put and long jump pitches were on the site.

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