Moat Wood
Moat Wood is a forest in Great and Little Leighs, Chelmsford District, England. Moat Wood is situated nearby to the hamlet Gubbion’s Green, as well as near the village Great Leighs.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Phyllis Currie Nature Reserve and Sandylay and Moat Woods.
Phyllis Currie Nature Reserve
Nature reserve
Photo: Glyn Baker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Phyllis Currie Nature Reserve is an 8.9-hectare nature reserve north-west of Great Leighs in Essex. It is owned and managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust.
Sandylay and Moat Woods
Forest
Photo: Glyn Baker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sandylay and Moat Woods is a 7.5-hectare nature reserve east of Great Leighs in Essex. 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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Braintree and Bannister Green.
Braintree
Photo: Brenda Howard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Braintree is a town in Essex, England. For a town of its size it boasts very few amenities. However, a shopping village on the outskirts, 'Freeport', has roughly 80 shops.
Bannister Green
Hamlet
Photo: Robert Edwards, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bannister Green is a village near Felsted, in the Uttlesford district, in the county of Essex, England. It was the site of Bannister Green Halt railway station on the Bishop's Stortford-Braintree Branch Line, prior to that station's closure in 1952.
Chatham Green
Hamlet
Chatham Green is a hamlet in the civil parish of Little Waltham and the Chelmsford district of Essex, England. The hamlet is 1.5 miles north from Little Waltham village, and approximately 4 miles north from the county town of Chelmsford.
Moat Wood
Latitude
51.8314° or 51° 49′ 53″ northLongitude
0.5147° or 0° 30′ 53″ eastOpen location code
9F32RGJ7+HVOpenStreetMap ID
way 140496672OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=forestOpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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Highlights include Gubbions Hall and Great Leighs Free Church.
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