Glebelands Local Nature Reserve

{{Short description|Nature reserve in the London Borough of Barnet}}

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Glebelands is a Grade I Site of Borough Importance for Nature Conservation in Colney Hatch in the London Borough of Barnet.{{cite web|url=http://www.gigl.org.uk/igigl/map.aspx |title=iGiGL – helping you find London's parks and wildlife sites |publisher=Greenspace Information for Greater London |year=2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121129124243/http://www.gigl.org.uk/igigl/map.aspx |archive-date=November 29, 2012 }} It is also part of the Coppett's Wood and Glebelands Local Nature Reserve.{{cite web|url=http://www.lnr.naturalengland.org.uk/Special/lnr/lnr_details.asp?C=0&N=glebelands&ID=540 |title=Coppetts Wood and Glebelands |series=Local Nature Reserves |publisher=Natural England |date=4 March 2013 |access-date=22 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202133108/http://www.lnr.naturalengland.org.uk/Special/lnr/lnr_details.asp?C=0&N=glebelands&ID=540 |archive-date=2 February 2014 }}{{cite web|url= http://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.aspx?startTopic=Designations&activelayer=lnrIndex&query=REF_CODE%3D%271009273%27|title=Map of Coppetts Wood and Glebelands|series=Local Nature Reserves|publisher=Natural England| access-date= 22 January 2014}}

It is the largest surviving fragment of the habitat of the old Finchley Common.{{cite book|title=Nature Conservation in Barnet|first=Janet |last =Hewlett|publisher=London Ecology Unit|year=1997|page=7|isbn=1-871045-27-4}} The site is mostly wooded with areas of tall scrub and grassland, and there are numerous streams and seasonal small ponds. The main trees are hawthorn, oak, ash and silver birch. The wetlands have a number of very rare flora, and it is the only known London site for lesser water plantain. There is a good diversity of breeding birds.{{cite web|url=http://www.gigl.org.uk/igigl/siteDetails.aspx?sID=BaBI07&sType=sinc|title=Glebeland's Local Nature Reserve|publisher=Greenspace Information for Greater London|year=2006|access-date=9 September 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121224122445/http://www.gigl.org.uk/igigl/siteDetails.aspx?sID=BaBI07&sType=sinc|archive-date=24 December 2012|url-status=dead}}

Glebelands is located at the corner of the North Circular Road and High Road, with access from a path between the High Road and Legion Way, off Summers Lane.