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Great Wood and Dodd's Grove is a biological
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. It is also a Local Nature Reserve called Belfairs.
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runs the Belfairs Woodland Centre and manages the site together with
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. This is a small remnant of the ancient Hadleigh Great Wood. It is coppiced oak woodland on sands, gravels and clay, and one of the largest areas of old woodland in the south of the county. Bramble and honeysuckle are the main ground plants. Other plants include the rare broad-leaved helleborine. Hadleigh Woods comprise several contiguous woods: Belfairs Wood (32.3 ha); Coxall Wood (0.79 ha); Dodd's Grove (4.02 ha); and Hadleigh Great Wood (33.3 ha). The site has toilets, a café and trails. There is access from Poors Lane, which runs through the site and separates Hadleigh Great Wood from Dodd's Grove.


See also

* Hockley woods *
Daws Heath Daws Heath contains a large area of woodland in eastern Thundersley, part of Castle Point near Southend-on-Sea in Essex, England. It is traversed by the Daws Heath Road and St Michael's Road. Daws Heath provides a semi-rural escape for local towns ...
*
Prittle Brook The Prittle Brook is a 7.2 mile (11.59 km) watercourse in south Essex, England. A tributary of the River Roach, the stream, brook rises in Thundersley and passes through Hadleigh, Essex, Hadleigh, Leigh-on-Sea, Westcliff, Prittlewell, Roch ...


References

{{Essex Wildlife Trust Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Essex Local Nature Reserves in Essex Essex Wildlife Trust Parks and nature reserves in Southend-on-Sea Forests and woodlands of Essex