Type Nature reserve OS grid TL 950 259 Area 4 ha | Managed by Essex Wildlife Trust Management Essex Wildlife Trust | |
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Similar Cockaynes Wood, Weeleyhall Wood, Pound Wood, Hales and Shadwell Woods, Gunners Park and Shoebury | ||
Iron Latch is a 4.3 hectare nature reserve in Eight Ash Green, west of Colchester in Essex.
The site consists of areas of species-rich grassland and ash woodland. Bird's foot trefoil provides food for common blue butterflies, and other butterlies include purple hairstreaks. Nightingales nest in the trees and hedges.
There is access from Iron Latch Lane.
Iron latch wood
References
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