Sandylay and Moat Woods

Essex Wildlife Trust Nature reserve

Sandylay and Moat Woods
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TypeNature reserve
LocationGreat Leighs, Essex
OS gridTL 733 175
Area7.5 hectares
Managed byEssex Wildlife Trust

Sandylay and Moat Woods is a 7.5-hectare (19-acre) nature reserve east of Great Leighs in Essex. It is owned and managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust.[1]

These adjacent woods are mainly coppiced small-leaved lime, with a small stream and many flowering plants, including wood anemones, sweet violets, spurge laurel, stinking iris and early purple orchid.[1]

There is access by a footpath from Mill Lane.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Sandylay and Moat Woods". Essex Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 11 November 2016.
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