Bushy Wood
Bushy Wood is a forest in Great and Little Leighs, Chelmsford District, England. Bushy Wood is situated nearby to the hamlet Gubbion’s Green, as well as near Rank’s Green.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.
Chelmsford City Racecourse
Sports venue
Chelmsford City racecourse, originally known as Great Leighs Racecourse, is a thoroughbred horse racing venue located in Great Leighs near Braintree, Essex, England.
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.
Tye Green
Hamlet
Tye Green is a village in the civil parish of Cressing and the Braintree district of Essex, England. In 2018, it had an estimated population of 1,114.
Bushy Wood
Latitude
51.8407° or 51° 50′ 27″ northLongitude
0.5204° or 0° 31′ 14″ eastOpen location code
9F32RGRC+75OpenStreetMap ID
way 37892947OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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