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 Harwich, Harbourside Crescent Promanade and Harwich Beach
Site covers the area from Stone Pier to Harwich Beach
locate Walthamstow Marshes
Walthamstow Marshes are one of the last remaining examples of semi-natural wetland in Greater London and very important in an Essex context.
locate East Tilbury Marshes
An extensive area former grazing marshes with very old landfill and a unique Thames foreshore.
locate Magdalen Wood (Remains of)
This woodland is all that remains of a larger area which was bordered in the west by Porters Brook, now piped, and to the east by St John's Rd. Much of the old wood was developed as housing in the 1970/80's
locate Swaines Green
Area of four former agriculture fields unused since 1980s, now owned and managed as a nature reserve and Epping Forest buffer land by City of London Conservators and by Epping Town Council. Free public access.
locate Hadleigh Castle
Ancient monument with remarkable landslip invertebrate fauna and an important geological site.
locate Hatfield Forest
The Last Forest (Oliver Rackham, 1989), with all the elements of a medieval Forest, an early acquisition by the National Trust.
locate East Tilbury Marshes
An extensive area former grazing marshes with very old landfill and a unique Thames foreshore.