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Coniston Avenue, UPMINSTER, RM14 3XL

An attractive and diverse range of cottages from Victorian stone house to traditional Essex weatherboard dwellings

Cranham Marsh Nature Reserve comprises a mixture of semi-natural habitats including marsh, sedge fen, damp meadow and wet woodland, which is believed to be ancient. For more information see https://www3.havering.gov.uk/Pages/ServiceChild/NatureReserves-CranhamMarsh.aspx This is the path from Huntsmans Drive through to the Green Belt and Cranham Marsh Nature Reserve. Here Upminster Cemetery is to the right and the playing fields of Gaynes School to the left of the path.

This gate is at the end of Park Drive turning right will lead to Cranham Marsh Nature Reserve see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/791103

This shot shows just how inclement the weather has been this winter. Normally by this time of year these fields would have been ploughed and sown with winter cereal. It looks like the farmer has ploughed a few furrows but the land seems to be saturated as the ruts out of shot were puddles. This spectacular double rainbow appeared during a sudden shower. Image can be seen in the distance.

The stream in Image nature reserve looking towards Spring Wood

This 32 acre reserve, managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust, is all that remains of a marshland habitat that once covered much of south Essex. It contains a variety of habitats including marsh, sedge fen and ancient woodland. Essex Wildlife Trust: http://www.essexwt.org.uk/reserves/cranham-marsh Wild Essex: http://www.wildessex.net/sites/Cranham%20Marsh.htm

Cranham Marsh Nature Reserve comprises a mixture of semi-natural habitats including marsh, sedge fen, damp meadow and wet woodland, which is believed to be ancient. For more information see https://www3.havering.gov.uk/Pages/ServiceChild/NatureReserves-CranhamMarsh.aspx

There are two footbridges in this photo. One is obvious the second is just to the left, over the stream. This nature reserve is managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust. To read more information see https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6437393 It is on the route of the London Green Belt Way.

Image Nature Reserve https://www.wildessex.net/sites/Cranham%20Marsh.htm is owned by Havering Council. However it is managed by volunteers from the Essex Wildlife Trust https://www.essexwt.org.uk/nature-reserves/cranham-marsh. They meet on the last Sunday every month and third Wednesday of winter months. If you would like to help out preserving these rare habitats see https://www.essexwt.org.uk/get-involved/volunteer. Here the volunteers are creating a Image from brushwood created when young trees were felled, coppiced or pollarded. This became necessary to save the rare rough grassland habitat becoming secondary woodland for another view see Image

This boundary is a "dead hedge"created from the brushwood resulting from felling, pollarding & coppicing trees that threatened to turn the grassland into secondary woodland. This technique saves unnecessary burning and creates habitat for small mammals and invertebrates. The work was carried out by the Essex Wildlife Trust's Image during their regular Image Image Nature Reserve is owned by Havering Council but is maintained by the Trust http://www.essexwt.org.uk/