Bocking Blackwater

Bocking Blackwater

Type	Local Nature Reserve
Location	Braintree, Essex
OS grid	TL766241
Area	13.1 hectares
Managed by	Braintree District Council

Bocking Blackwater is a 13.1 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Braintree in Essex. It is owned and managed by Braintree District Council.^[1]^[2] In 2016 the council proposed to extend the boundaries of the site.^[3]

The site is a long narrow strip along the south bank of the River Blackwater between Bradford Bridge and the A131 road. It has a wide variety of plant species, including veteran trees, and its habitats are wetland, woodland, scrub, wildflower meadows and grassland.^[1]

There is access at many points along its boundary.

References

1 2 "Bocking Blackwater". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 25 February 2013. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
↑ "Map of Bocking Blackwater". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
↑ "Bocking Blackwater Public Open space: Proposed Extension to the Current Local Nature Reserve (LNR) Boundary". Braintree District Council. Retrieved 22 May 2016.

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Local Nature Reserves in Essex

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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°53′15″N 0°33′53″E / 51.8875°N 0.56474°E / 51.8875; 0.56474

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