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Hockley Woods is a large woodland in south-east Essex. It is a Local Nature Reserve, [1] [2] and parts are a Site of Special Scientific Interest. [3] [4] It is owned and managed by Rochford District Council. [3] Hockley Woods are the largest residual area of the wildwood, which covered much of Essex after the Ice Age, 10,000 years ago. Hockley ...
Near Doniphan, NE: Active: 1945–Present. Camp Augustine is a 160-acre camp along the banks of the Platte River between Grand Island and Doniphan, Nebraska [54] Camp Butterfield: Mid-America Council: Near Orchard, NE: Closed: Camp Butterfield was located 13 miles north of Orchard, Nebraska and composed 160 acres of rolling sandhills [55] Camp ...
Tidal mud flats, East Mersea, in the Colne Estuary Essex is a county in the east of England. In the early Anglo-Saxon period it was the Kingdom of the East Saxons, but it gradually came under the control of more powerful kingdoms, and in the ninth century it became part of Wessex. The modern county is bounded by Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, Hertfordshire to the west, Greater London ...
Hockley is a large village and civil parish in Essex in the East of England located between Chelmsford and Southend-on-Sea, or, more specifically, between Rayleigh and Rochford. It came to prominence during the coming of the railway in the 1890s [ 2 ] and at the 2001 census had a population of 13,616 people, [ 3 ] reducing to 9,616 at the 2011 ...
Marylands is a 3.7 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Hockley in Essex. It is owned by Rochford District Council and managed by Hockley Parish Council. [1] [2] The site has a varied fauna and flora, with 96 species of trees, shrubs, grasses and herbs, and 13 of butterflies. Nine of the tree species are associated with ancient woodland.
The woodlands of Bedfordshire cover 6.2% of the county. [2] Some two thirds of this (4,990 ha or 12,300 acres) is broad-leaved woodland, principally oak and ash. [3] A Woodland Trust estimate of all ancient woodland in Bedfordshire (dating back to at least the year 1600), including woods of 0.1 ha (0.25 acres) and upward suggests an area of 1,468 ha (3,630 acres). [4]
Chalkney Wood is a 72.6-hectare (179-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-east of Earls Colne in Essex, England. [1] [2] 25 hectares is owned by Essex County Council and 48 hectares by Forestry England.
The Chapman and Andre map of Essex (1777) indicates there was a large open area in the centre-east, and open common land and a little coppice woodland around the periphery. Oaks from the Forest were harvested to build ships for the Royal Navy, most notably HMS Temeraire (launched in 1798), which was famous for its role in the Battle of Trafalgar .