CONTENTS
WHAT IS HEATHLAND? 4
RECENT HISTORY OF TIPTREE HEATH 4
MANAGEMENT OF TIPTREE HEATH 7
THE CONSERVATION GROUP 9
BIOLOGICAL RECORDING 10
Birds 10
Mammals 11
Plants 12
Heather 12
Gorse 13
Bracken 14
Woodland 14
Grassland 15
Invertebrates 18
BIBLIOGRAPHY 19
Figure 1. Part of Tiptree Heath in the 18th century. Much of the heathland
shown in this 1777 map was under the plough by the time the G. S. Gibson
"Flora" was published in 1862: The present-day Tiptree Heath is shown
arrowed. The unidentified circle is probably the race course. The 18th century
woodland in the Great Braxted area is still largely intact, although partly
coniferised. Scale 1:50,000.
Reproduced from Chapman and Andre 1777.
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