Hoppit Mead

Hoppit Mead

Type	Local Nature Reserve
Location	Braintree, Essex
OS grid	TL752221
Area	9.2 hectares
Managed by	Braintree District Council

Hoppit Mead is a 9.2 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Braintree in Essex. It is owned and managed by Braintree District Council.^[1]^[2]

This linear site has formal park areas, wildflower meadows, scrub, wet woodland and coppice. The River Brain runs through it. The seventeenth century naturalist John Ray made pioneering observations of wild blackcurrant bushes in the wet woodland.^[1]

There is access to the north-east corner at the junction of Godlings Way and Notley Road, and to the western end from London Road.

References

1 2 "Hoppit Mead". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 29 April 2014. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
↑ "Map of Hoppit Mead". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 22 May 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°52′13″N 0°32′39″E / 51.8703°N 0.54416°E / 51.8703; 0.54416

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