Interesting Places
Here are some random sample locations of interest in Essex. Also take a look at sites shown on our sites map, geology site map and brownfield site map, with the site account and locate site facility.
locate Jills field
Area is a narrow triangle, above the A13. It has original Thames Terraces sandy soil, never been much disturbed. It is mostly open ground, with scrub Birch encroaching. On the cutting bank of the A13 is a geological exposure that is a SSSI. However, this does not protect the field on top.
locate Layer De La Haye garden
Back garden within the Essex and Suffolk waterworks in Layer De La Haye.
locate Steeple Creek (shingle)
Shingle foreshore on side of inlet in Blackwater estuary.
locate Frairs Grove Wood and Plantation
This site consists of an ancient woodland and a relatively new plantation which is part of Highwoods Country Park.
locate Colne Point
A few other coastal Essex sites have some shingle banks, and several others have tracts of sandy ground. However, no other location has such extensive dune, shingle ridges, the mix of shingle, sand and mud substrates and the gradation of saltmarsh onto these drier habitats.
locate East Tilbury Marshes
An extensive area former grazing marshes with very old landfill and a unique Thames foreshore.
locate Essex Wildlife Trust at Abbotts Hall, Great Wigborough
The Wildlife Trust's headquarters.
locate Steeple Creek (shingle)
Shingle foreshore on side of inlet in Blackwater estuary.