Step into this wonderful pocket of ancient woodland and meadows, filled with wildflowers in spring and butterflies in summer.

Visit a reserve that is brimming with amazing bird species in every corner in every month of the year, with lovely views over the Stour Estuary

Once a pumping station for a sewage works, this nature reserve is now a haven for reedbed species and provides a home to the UK's most endangered mammal, the Water Vole

A small nature reserve where hundreds of wildflowers bloom in spring

Experience the wonder of up to 75,000 Green-winged Orchids in this small meadow nature reserve

A small reserve where the scrub comes alive with birdsong in spring and the ponds are a haven for damselflies

Visit a beautifully wild nature reserve with its woodlands, ponds and species rich grasslands, filled with amazing wildlife

Warley Place is open every day during daylight hours. This 25 acre reserve is the site of a house and once famous Edwardian gardens belonging to Ellen Willmott, it is now maintained as a nature…

Walk alongside one of the largest reedbeds in Essex in this Thameside nature reserve and listen out for the famous call of the cuckoo in the summer.

On the edge of the Stour Estuary, you'll find the flourishing Copperas Wood Nature Reserve, filled with blooming wild flowers in the spring