Here are a few facts about Biggin Wood Allotments
- we’re the most northerly allotments in Croydon, on a sunny south-facing site just off Beulah Hill
- with clay soil, which can be damp but is very fertile
- we have only just over 100 plots, so the site isn’t impersonal
- frequent deliveries of horse manure and woodchip, which are free to members to use on-site
- we have a trading hut for supplies
- We have an apiary (a place where hives of honeybees are kept)
- We are members of CFAGS (Croydon Federation of Allotment and Gardening Societies) and NAS (National Allotment Society)we came first in the 2015 Croydon inter-allotments completion and third in 2016
- we’re self-managed, i.e. run by our own committee, rather than with plots leased direct from the Council
- the Society was set up in April 1921 and was the first in Croydon to lease a site from the Council. We moved to our current site in December 1939.
