Editing Belmont, Sutton (section)

==Green Space==
[[File:Belmont Park (geograph 3731492).jpg|thumb|left|Belmont Park]]

In addition to Belmont Park, Belmont contains two [[Local Nature Reserve]]s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lnr.naturalengland.org.uk/Special/lnr/lnr_results.asp?N=&C=17&Submit=Search |publisher=Natural England |title=Local Nature Reserves: Search results for Greater London |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927113247/http://www.lnr.naturalengland.org.uk/special/lnr/lnr_results.asp?N=&C=17&Submit=Search |archivedate=27 September 2013 |df=dmy }}</ref>

*[[Cuddington Meadows]] is a Grade I [[Site of Nature Conservation Interest|Site of Borough Importance for Nature Conservation]]. The site was shown as two enclosures on the open Banstead Downs on an early nineteenth century map, and it was later part of Walnut Tree Farm, which became Cuddington Hospital in 1897. The hospital closed in 1984, and in the late 1990s the land was transferred to Sutton Council to be managed for nature conservation.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=London Borough of Sutton |url=https://www.sutton.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=2398 |title=Cuddington Meadows LNR |accessdate=3 April 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141223235018/https://www.sutton.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=2398 |archivedate=23 December 2014 |df=dmy }}</ref> It is mainly chalk grassland with some scrub. Its most important feature is a variety of unusual flowering plants, including [[greater knapweed]], [[lady's bedstraw]] and [[field scabious]].
*[[Belmont Pastures]] is a Grade II [[Site of Nature Conservation Interest|Site of Borough Importance for Nature Conservation]]. It is a long narrow triangle north of Belmont railway station. It is an old meadow which formerly belonged to Belmont Hospital.

Just to the south of the village is Banstead Downs, which extends for around a mile further south towards neighbouring [[Banstead, Surrey]].  Banstead Downs is a large [[Site of Special Scientific Interest]], covering 430 acres (170 ha). Banstead Golf Course is on the northern slopes.