Phyllis Currie Nature Reserve

Places of Interest

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.

Church of St John the Evangelist

Church

Photo: Trevor Wright, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

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.

Ford End

Village

Photo: NewInEngland, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Ford End is a small village in the parish of Great Waltham halfway between Chelmsford and Great Dunmow in Essex, England, comprising over 150 houses. In 2018 it had an estimated population of 733.

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