Belton Hills

Belton Hills

Type	Local Nature Reserve
Location	Leigh-on-Sea, Essex
OS grid	TQ831859
Area	22.0 hectares
Managed by	Southend-on-Sea Borough Council

Belton Hills is a 22 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex. It is owned and managed by Southend-on-Sea Borough Council.^[1]^[2]

This steeply sloping site has large areas of scrub, and there are some rare plant and invertebrates species. Plants include Deptford pink and bithynian vetch, and a survey in 2001 recorded 667 invertebrate taxa.^[3]

There is access to the site from Marine Parade.

References

↑ "Belton Hills". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 21 January 2016. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 25 June 2016.
↑ "Map of Belton Hills". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 25 June 2016.
↑ "Site Account: Southend on Sea, Belton Hills". Essex Field Club. Retrieved 25 June 2016.

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Local Nature Reserves in Essex

Basildon	Mill Meadows, Billericay Norsey Wood Vange Hill

Braintree	Bocking Blackwater Brickfield and Long Meadow Brockwell Meadows Cuckoo Wood Gosfield Sandpits Hoppit Mead Whet Mead

Brentwood	Hutton Country Park

Castle Point	Canvey Lake

Chelmsford	Chelmer Valley Riverside Fenn Washland Galleywood Common

Colchester	Bull Meadow Colne Colne Valley Hilly Fields Lexden Park Salary Brook Spring Lane Meadows Tiptree Parish Field Welsh Wood

Epping Forest	Chigwell Row Wood Church Lane Flood Meadow Home Mead Linder's Field Nazeing Triangle Roding Valley Meadows Roughtalley's Wood Thornwood Common Flood Meadow Weald Common Flood Meadows

Harlow	Harlow Marsh Hawkenbury Meadow Parndon Woods and Common

Rochford	Hockley Woods Kendal Park Magnolia Fields Marylands

Southend-on-Sea	Belfairs Belton Hills Gunners Park Shoeburyness Old Ranges Southend on Sea Foreshore

Tendring	Holland Haven Pickers Ditch Meadow Wrabness

Thurrock	Grove House Wood Linford Wood

Coordinates: 51°32′32″N 0°38′20″E / 51.5423°N 0.639°E / 51.5423; 0.639

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