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Little Haven Nature Reserve

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Type
  
Nature reserve

OS grid
  
TQ 808 890

Managed by
  
Essex Wildlife Trust

Location
  
Thundersley, Essex

Area
  
37.2 hectares

Little Haven Nature Reserve

Little Haven is a 37.2 hectare nature reserve in Thundersley in Essex. It is owned by the Little Haven Children's Hospice, and leased to the Essex Wildlife Trust (EWT).

This site has diverse habitats of woodland, meadows, scrub and hedges. The main trees are sessile oaks, hornbeams and sweet chestnut, and plants such as wood sorrel and are indicators of ancient woodland. The reserve is one of only 25 in the courty where the rare heath fritillary is well established. The hedges provide nesting sites for migrating birds such as whitethroats.

There is access to the site by a footpath from St Michael's Road through Tile Wood, a neighbouring EWT nature reserve.

References

Little Haven Nature Reserve Wikipedia