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

This peaceful woodland is a true wonder in spring when you can walk through the carpet of bluebells

Once gravel pits, this land was flooded and transformed into a wildlife haven where you can discover new wildlife round every bend or sit back on one of the benches and take it all in

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

This enchanting nature reserve was once a working gravel pit but for the last 50 years has been transformed into a flourishing wildlife haven

Skippers Island is one of the last remaining places in Essex with a true feeling of wilderness - a remote island in the Walton Backwaters, there is a sense of peacefulness, only interrupted by the…

Take a stroll and admire the butteflies along the former Maldon-Woodham Ferrers railway line

Just around the corner from The Naze Centre you'll find John Weston Nature Reserve, an important site for passing birds in the spring and autumn

Two attractive woods adjacent to each other that in spring are covered with an array of woodland flowers

To visit Bonny Wood is, on some levels, to experience two different worlds.