Tiptree Parish Field is a 2.2 hectare
Local Nature Reserve in
Tiptree in
Essex
Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G ...
, England.
It is owned and managed by Tiptree Parish Council.
The site is on a field adjacent to Park Lane, an ancient road between Tiptree and
Tolleshunt Knights
Tolleshunt Knights is a village and civil parish in the English county of Essex.
The Parish has a Parish council, and lies within the area of Maldon District Council. It borders Tiptree, Layer Marney and Salcott cum Virley within the Colchest ...
. In 1976 the council purchased the land for sports facilities, but these were never constructed due to shortage of funds, and in the 1990s the area became a nature reserve. It has acid rough grassland with young oak woodland, and a pond which was created by widening
Layer Brook.
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There is access to the site from Park Lane, off Newbridge Road. Tiptree Parish Field is the eastern half of the larger Park Lane Nature Reserve.][
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References
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Local Nature Reserves in Essex
Tiptree