Cuckoo Wood is a 2.5 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Braintree 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 Grea ...

. It is owned by Braintree District Council and managed by

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as an educational resource. The site has amenity grassland, meadows, woods, lakes, ponds, ditches and hedgerows. It has some locally rare species, and is described by

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as a very good habitat for fungi, due to a large amount of dead wood. The site is not open to the public.

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