Essex
Chelmsford District
Great & Little Leighs

Sandylay and Moat Woods

Sandylay and Moat Woods is a 7.5-hectare nature reserve east of in . It is owned and managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust. 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.
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  • Type: Forest
  • Description: Essex Wildlife Trust Nature reserve
  • Also known as: “Sandlay Wood”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Phyllis Currie Nature Reserve and Chelmsford City Racecourse.

Nature reserve
Photo: Glyn Baker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is an 8.9-hectare nature reserve north-west of in . It is owned and managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust.

Sports venue
, originally known as Great Leighs Racecourse, is a thoroughbred horse racing venue located in near , , .

Church
Photo: Trevor Wright, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Braintree and Bannister Green.

Photo: Brenda Howard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a town in , . For a town of its size it boasts very few amenities. However, a shopping village on the outskirts, 'Freeport', has roughly 80 shops.

Hamlet
Photo: Robert Edwards, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village near , in the Uttlesford district, in the county of , England. It was the site of Halt railway station on the Bishop's Stortford-Braintree Branch Line, prior to that station's closure in 1952.

Hamlet
is a hamlet in the civil parish of and the Chelmsford district of , England. The hamlet is 1.5 miles north from Little Waltham village, and approximately 4 miles north from the county town of .

Sandylay and Moat Woods

Latitude
51.8292° or 51° 49′ 45″ north
Longitude
0.5137° or 0° 30′ 49″ east
Open location code
9F32RGH7+MF
Open­Street­Map ID
way 140496665
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­forest
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­wood
Wiki­data ID
Q28405081
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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Moat Wood and Great Leighs Free Church.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sandylay and Moat Woods”. Photo: Glyn Baker, CC BY-SA 2.0.