Home Mead

Home Mead

Type	Local Nature Reserve
Location	Loughton, Essex
OS grid	TQ 439 978
Area	1.8 hectares
Managed by	Epping Forest District Council

Home Mead is a 1.8 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Loughton in Essex. It is owned and managed by Epping Forest District Council.^[1]^[2]

This site has woodland, scrub and acid grassland. The woodland has spread into part of the grassland. A wildflower meadow has yellow tormentil and blue bugle, both of which provide food for butterflies. Plants is the scrub area include bird's-foot trefoil and ragged robin.^[1]

There is access from England's Lane.^[1]

References

1 2 3 "Home Mead". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 25 January 2016. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
↑ "Map of Home Mead". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 16 August 2016.

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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°39′38″N 0°04′45″E / 51.6606°N 0.0791°E / 51.6606; 0.0791

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