Highgrove Wood and Warrender Park were part of the estate of Highgrove House owned by Lady Warrender; it is located between Eastcote and Ruislip Manor and is one of a previous estate to three large historical houses in this area, another one being Eastcote House. Warrender Park is named for the last resident of the house as she had sold some of the land (now Warrender Park) and other land for homes. Lady Warrender and her brother were friends of Winston Churchill's mother, and Churchill stayed at the house during his honeymoon in 1900. The house was also used for the RAF. After Lady Warrender's death, the council took her house and turned it into a home for the elderly and the homeless. In the past ten years or so, the house (a Grade II listed building) was converted to luxury homes.
Warrender Park and the immediate area houses various fitness facilities and a nearby school and allotments. What is now known as Highgrove Wood was part of the formal gardens of the house. It has been left as a woodland and grassland. The best time to visit this small section of woods is in the spring and before the leaves come out fully. There are many flowers in bloom here in the early spring.
There is a small pond located in the woodland, but most of the woodland is just a small strip of land with trees with some trails that lead between Warrender Park and Eastcote Road. There is some grassland and another pond at the Eastcote Road entrance.
Wood anemone and bluebells are popular in the woodland.
Overall, it is a pleasant walk through the woods here.
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