A beautiful part of the British countryside with gorgeous views at sunset, especially during the golden hour. A must visit for anyone looking to escape the city for a few hours to decompress and relax... However, there's only one rubbish bin. 2 stars

Great place for a long refreshing walk. Long paths strewn with big puddles bring you all the around in a big loop. I would have loved to check out the remains of the old explosives works but it is all privately owned land with no public access. Popular place for bird watchers with views of the river Thames to the west. If you can see passed the odd burned out car and fly tipping the area does have some beauty.

Excellent bird reserve and a lovely place to walk. Car park is normally open but on the Sunday I visited the gates were locked which resulted in all the cars parking on the approach road.

So theres clearly lots of biodiversity here, we went in the evening and saw glow worms! There is however a lot of dog poo on the walking trails, we walked on the road in the end to avoid it. There is also the constant noise of the quarry. The actual pools are sort of hidden by brambles and where you could go to the edge, was really smelly and a bit stagnant. Long walks and nice views and sunsets, but probably wont go back.

The car park says it opens at 9am (not 10am) but it was open when I got there around 7:45am. Some good bird spotting, though lots of shrubberies for them to hide in so can be tough to spot what you can hear! I did the big route round the edge but would probably use the shorter routes nearer the car park in future as they were the nicer areas - it gets a bit industrial and desolate by the Thames.