Hawkenbury Meadow

Hawkenbury Meadow

Type	Local Nature Reserve
Location	Harlow, Essex
OS grid	TL434088
Area	1.6 hectares
Managed by	Harlow District Council

Hawkenbury Meadow is a 1.6 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Harlow in Essex. It is owned and managed by Harlow District Council.^[1]^[2]

The site is neutral grassland with a brook running through it. It has a variety of wild flowers including yellow rattle, common spotted orchid, cowslip, wild carrot and grass vetchling. There are strips of mature woodland along the margins, and a stand of willow trees. A damper area in the north of the site has marshland plants.^[1]

There is access from Paycock Road.

References

1 2 "Hawkenbury Meadow". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 26 February 2013. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
↑ "Map of Hawkenbury Meadow". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 29 May 2016.

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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°45′34″N 0°04′35″E / 51.7595°N 0.076369°E / 51.7595; 0.076369

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