Tile Wood

Tile Wood is a 6.5-hectare nature reserve in Daws Heath in Essex. It is managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust. The wood is ancient, having been mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon period.

Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Rayleigh Windmill and Rayleigh railway station.

Rayleigh Windmill

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Rayleigh Windmill is a grade II listed Tower mill at Rayleigh, Essex, England which has been restored as a landmark and is used as a museum.

Rayleigh railway station

Railway station

Photo: John Myers, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Rayleigh railway station is on the Shenfield to Southend Line in the East of England, serving the town of Rayleigh, in Essex. It lies 33 miles 9 chains down the line from London Liverpool Street, and is situated between Wickford to the west and Hockley to the east.

Hadleigh Castle

Photo: JohnArmagh, Public domain.

Hadleigh Castle is a ruined fortification in the English county of Essex, overlooking the Thames Estuary from south of the town of Hadleigh. Built after 1215 during the reign of Henry III by Hubert de Burgh, the castle was surrounded by parkland and had an important economic and defensive role.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Leigh-on-Sea and Rayleigh.

Leigh-on-Sea

Photo: Chris j wood, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Leigh-on-Sea is a beautiful old fishing port on the London side of Southend-on-Sea on the south coast of Essex. Visitor venues in Leigh can be divided into three zones.

Rayleigh

Town

Photo: Auntalys, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Rayleigh is a market town and civil parish in the Rochford District, Essex, England. It lies between Chelmsford and Southend-on-Sea, 32 miles east of central London. At the 2021 census, the parish had a population of 32,248 and the built-up area had 32,380.

Hadleigh

Town

Photo: Edward Clack, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Hadleigh is a town in the borough of Castle Point, in the south-east of Essex, England. It lies on the A13 road between Thundersley, Benfleet and Leigh-on-Sea. The A127 'Southend Arterial Road' bypasses the town to the north.

Tile Wood

Type: Nature reserve
Description: Essex Wildlife Trust Nature reserve
Categories: forest and recreation area
Location: Rayleigh, Rochford District, Essex, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.5716° or 51° 34′ 18″ north

Longitude

0.6178° or 0° 37′ 4″ east

Open location code

9F32HJC9+J4

OpenStreetMap ID

way 33101592

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=nature_reserve

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

Wikidata ID

Q24896529

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