Nature Reserves in Essex - Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Essex, Stour Estuary Rspb Reserve, Epping Forest, Turnford and Cheshunt Pits (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Essex, Stour Estuary Rspb Reserve, Epping Forest, Turnford and Cheshunt Pits, Hatfield Forest, Abberton Reservoir, Waltham Abbey Sssi, Foulness, Naze, List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Essex, Dunton Plotlands, Blackwater Estuary, Cornmill Stream and Old River Lea, Two Tree Island, Dengie Spa, River Ter, Norsey Wood. Excerpt: The Dunton Plotlands was an area of small rural plots of land in southern Essex inhabited from the 1930s to the 1980s. The 'plotlands' consisted of small plots of land sold in the first half of the 20th century to people who built weekend cottages, holiday bungalows or smallholdings there. Many of the people building weekend cottages here would have come out from London .After the Second World War, the new town of Basildon was created, encompassing the plotlands here and in the surrounding areas of Laindon and Pitsea . At the time, 25000 people lived in the whole area, often with unsurfaced roads and limited water supplies. Dunton Plotlands is situated to the west of Laindon and the Langdon Hills, now on the edge of the Basildon district .Today, Dunton Plotlands is part of the Essex Wildlife Trust 's Langdon nature reserve. The Langdon Visitor Centre and the Haven Plotlands Museum housed in a converted bungalow exhibit the natural and social history of the area.The Plotlands is still a wooded area where a small number of cottages, and some of the original grid of grass tracks remain.References (URLs online) Websites (URLs online) Coordinates: 5133 40 N 023 40 E / 51.56111N 0.39444E / 51.56111; 0.39444A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Hatfield ForestHatfield Forest in Essex, England lies between the parishes of Little Hallingbury and Takeley, and covers 1,049 acres (4.2 km) of woodla...