View of Keston Ponds nature reserve, Bromley, Kent.


The three obvious ponds at Keston, were built as reservoirs to supply water to nearby Holwood House, once the residence of William Pitt, later a seismological research institution and recently converted into up-market apartments. The River Ravensbourne rises at Caesar's Well via Keston Ponds. The Ravensbourne is 11 miles ( km) in length and flows through the London Boroughs of Bromley, Lewisham and Greenwich. Since 1991, Quaggy Waterways Action Group (QWAG) have spent millions maintaining the River Ravensbourne. The "London LOOP" walk passes the ponds on its way from Farnborough to West Wickham. Every year on 1 May at , the Ravensbourne Morris Men dance up the Beltaine Sunrise at Caesars Well, the source of the Ravensbourne River


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Location: Keston Ponds, Bromley, Kent.
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