Top Field and Cozens Grove is a 6.1 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Wormley in Hertfordshire. It is owned and managed by

Broxbourne Borough Council Broxbourne is a town and former civil parish, now in the unparished area of Hoddesdon, in the Broxbourne district, in Hertfordshire, England, north of London, with a population of 15,303 at the 2011 Census.Broxbourne Town population 2011 It is ...

. Top Field (also known as Wormley Top Field) is a wildflower meadow which is mown to provide a habitat for small mammals, birds and insects. In 2014 it was given the

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. Cozens Grove is an ancient wood which has coppiced hornbeam and a medieval sunken ditch. In 2010 Broxbourne Council proposed to remove the site from the

Green Belt A green belt is a policy and land-use zone designation used in land-use planning to retain areas of largely undeveloped, wild, or agricultural land surrounding or neighboring urban areas. Similar concepts are greenways or green wedges, which ...

, which would have laid it open to development, but the proposal was dropped after campaigning by the Friends of Wormley Open Spaces. There is access from Cozens Lane West.

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{{Use British English, date=January 2016 Local Nature Reserves in Hertfordshire Borough of Broxbourne