Great Wood and Dodd's Grove

Great Wood and Dodd's Grove
Site of Special Scientific Interest

Area of Search	Essex
Grid reference	TQ819877
Interest	Biological
Area	36.8 hectares
Notification	1985
Location map	Magic Map

Great Wood and Dodd's Grove is a 36.8 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex.^[1]^[2] It is also a Local Nature Reserve called Belfairs.^[3]^[4] Essex Wildlife Trust runs the Belfairs Woodland Centre and manages the site together with Southend-on-Sea Borough Council.^[5]

This is a small remnant of the ancient Hadleigh Great Wood. It is coppiced oak woodland on sands, gravels and clay, and one of the largest areas of old woodland in the south of the county. Bramble and honeysuckle are the main ground plants. Other plants include the rare broad-leaved helleborine.^[1] The site has toilets, a café and trails.^[3]

There is access from Poors Lane, which runs through the site.^[2]

References

1 2 "Great Wood and Dodd's Grove citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
1 2 "Map of Great Wood and Dodd's Grove". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
1 2 "Belfairs". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 20 January 2016. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
↑ "Map of Belfairs". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
↑ "Belfairs Woodland Centre". Essex Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 12 June 2016.

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Coordinates: 51°33′32″N 0°37′23″E / 51.559°N 0.623°E / 51.559; 0.623

Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Essex

Biological	Abberton Reservoir Ashdon Meadows Basildon Meadows Belcher's and Broadfield Woods Benfleet and Southend Marshes Blackwater Estuary Blake's Wood & Lingwood Common Bovingdon Hall Woods Bullock Wood Canvey Wick Cattawade Marshes Chalkney Wood Colne Estuary The Coppice, Kelvedon Hatch Cornmill Stream and Old River Lea Crouch and Roach Estuaries Curtismill Green Danbury Common Debden Water Dengie Elsenham Woods Epping Forest Foulness Garnetts Wood and Barnston Lays Garrold's Meadow Glemsford Pits Grays Thurrock Chalk Pit Great Wood and Dodd's Grove Hainault Forest Hales and Shadwell Woods Hamford Water Hangman's Wood and Deneholes Hanningfield Reservoir Harlow Woods Hatfield Forest High Wood, Dunmow Hockley Woods Holehaven Creek Holland Haven Marshes Hunsdon Mead Inner Thames Marshes Little Hallingbury Marsh Mill Meadows Mucking Flats and Marshes Norsey Wood Nunn Wood Pitsea Marsh Quendon Wood Riddles Wood Roding Valley Meadows Roman River Sandbeach Meadows Stour and Copperas Woods, Ramsey Stour Estuary Thorndon Park Thrift Wood, Woodham Ferrers Thundersley Great Common Tiptree Heath Turnford and Cheshunt Pits Upper Colne Marshes Vange and Fobbing Marshes Waltham Abbey Weeleyhall Wood West Thurrock Lagoon and Marshes West Wood, Little Sampford Woodham Walter Common

Geological	Ardleigh Gravel Pit Clacton Cliffs and Foreshore The Cliff, Burnham-on-Crouch Colne Estuary Dengie Globe Pit Goldsands Road Pit Hall's Quarry Harwich Foreshore Holland-on-Sea Cliff Lion Pit Little Oakley Channel Deposit Lofts Farm Pit Maldon Cutting Marks Tey Brickpit The Naze Newney Green Pit Purfleet Chalk Pits Purfleet Road, Aveley River Ter St Osyth Pit Stour Estuary Wivenhoe Gravel Pit

Local Nature Reserves in Essex

Basildon	Mill Meadows, Billericay Norsey Wood Vange Hill

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

Essex Wildlife Trust

Basildon	Langdon Nature Reserve

Braintree	Brookes Nature Reserve

Brentwood	Thorndon Countryside Centre Warley Place

Castle Point	Little Haven Pound Wood Tile Wood

Chelmsford	Crowsheath Wood Danbury Ridge Hanningfield Reservoir Little Waltham Meadows Newland Grove Phyllis Currie Sandylay and Moat Woods Shotgate Thickets Thrift Wood Woodham Fen

Colchester	Abberton Reservoir Abbotts Hall Farm Fingringhoe Wick Iron Latch Lexden Gathering Grounds Ray Island Roman River Valley Sergeants Orchard Tiptree Heath Westhouse Wood

Epping Forest	Gernon Bushes Roding Valley Meadows

Harlow	Hunsdon Mead

Havering	Bedfords Park Cranham Marsh Ingrebourne Valley

Maldon	Blue House Farm Bradwell Shell Bank Chigborough Lakes Maldon Wick Oxley Meadow Shut Heath Wood Stow Maries Halt Tollesbury Wick

Rochford	Lion Creek and Lower Raypits

Southend-on-Sea	Belfairs Gunners Park and Shoebury Ranges Two Tree Island

Tendring	Cockaynes Wood Colne Point Copperas Wood Great Holland Pits Howlands Marsh John Weston Nature Reserve The Naze Oakfield Wood Skippers Island Wrabness

Thurrock	Grove House Wood Linford Wood Chafford Gorges Nature Park Fobbing Marsh Horndon Meadow Stanford Warren Thurrock Thameside Nature Park

Uttlesford	Aubrey Buxton Rushy Mead Sawbridgeworth Marsh Shadwell Wood Weeleyhall Wood West Wood

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