Roding Valley Meadows

Roding Valley Meadows
Site of Special Scientific Interest
River Roding in Roding Valley Meadows
Area of Search	Essex
Grid reference	TQ 436953
Interest	Biological
Area	19.8 hectares
Notification	1987
Location map	Magic Map

Roding Valley Meadows is an 18.9 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Buckhurst Hill in Essex.^[1]^[2] It is part of a 65.2 hectare Local Nature Reserve with the same name, which is owned by Epping Forest District Council and Grange Farm Trust, and managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust.^[3]^[4]

The meadows are bordered to the south west by the River Roding. They form one of the largest areas of grassland in Essex which are traditionally managed as hay meadows, flood meadows and marshland. They have a rich variety of plant species, including the largest beds in Essex of the rare brown sedge. The flood meadows have a number of uncommon species, including carex panicea and marsh-marigold.^[1] There are nearly ten miles of hedgerows. Management is by hay cutting and grazing by traditional breeds of cattle.^[5]

The main car park is on Roding Lane.

References

1 2 "Roding Valley Meadows citation". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
↑ "Map of Roding Valley Meadows" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
↑ "Roding Valley Meadows". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 16 March 2016. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
↑ "Map of Roding Valley Meadows". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
↑ "Roding Valley Meadows". Essex Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 6 August 2016.

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Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Essex

Biological	Abberton Reservoir Ashdon Meadows Basildon Meadows Belcher's and Broadfield Woods Benfleet and Southend Marshes Blackwater Estuary Blake's Wood & Lingwood Common Bovingdon Hall Woods Bullock Wood Canvey Wick Cattawade Marshes Chalkney Wood Colne Estuary The Coppice, Kelvedon Hatch Cornmill Stream and Old River Lea Crouch and Roach Estuaries Curtismill Green Danbury Common Debden Water Dengie Elsenham Woods Epping Forest Foulness Garnetts Wood and Barnston Lays Garrold's Meadow Glemsford Pits Grays Thurrock Chalk Pit Great Wood and Dodd's Grove Hainault Forest Hales and Shadwell Woods Hamford Water Hangman's Wood and Deneholes Hanningfield Reservoir Harlow Woods Hatfield Forest High Wood, Dunmow Hockley Woods Holehaven Creek Holland Haven Marshes Hunsdon Mead Inner Thames Marshes Little Hallingbury Marsh Mill Meadows Mucking Flats and Marshes Norsey Wood Nunn Wood Pitsea Marsh Quendon Wood Riddles Wood Roding Valley Meadows Roman River Sandbeach Meadows Stour and Copperas Woods, Ramsey Stour Estuary Thorndon Park Thrift Wood, Woodham Ferrers Thundersley Great Common Tiptree Heath Turnford and Cheshunt Pits Upper Colne Marshes Vange and Fobbing Marshes Waltham Abbey Weeleyhall Wood West Thurrock Lagoon and Marshes West Wood, Little Sampford Woodham Walter Common

Geological	Ardleigh Gravel Pit Clacton Cliffs and Foreshore The Cliff, Burnham-on-Crouch Colne Estuary Dengie Globe Pit Goldsands Road Pit Hall's Quarry Harwich Foreshore Holland-on-Sea Cliff Lion Pit Little Oakley Channel Deposit Lofts Farm Pit Maldon Cutting Marks Tey Brickpit The Naze Newney Green Pit Purfleet Chalk Pits Purfleet Road, Aveley River Ter St Osyth Pit Stour Estuary Wivenhoe Gravel Pit

Local Nature Reserves in Essex

Basildon	Mill Meadows, Billericay Norsey Wood Vange Hill

Braintree	Bocking Blackwater Brickfield and Long Meadow Brockwell Meadows Cuckoo Wood Gosfield Sandpits Hoppit Mead Whet Mead

Brentwood	Hutton Country Park

Castle Point	Canvey Lake

Chelmsford	Chelmer Valley Riverside Fenn Washland Galleywood Common

Colchester	Bull Meadow Colne Colne Valley Hilly Fields Lexden Park Salary Brook Spring Lane Meadows Tiptree Parish Field Welsh Wood

Epping Forest	Chigwell Row Wood Church Lane Flood Meadow Home Mead Linder's Field Nazeing Triangle Roding Valley Meadows Roughtalley's Wood Thornwood Common Flood Meadow Weald Common Flood Meadows

Harlow	Harlow Marsh Hawkenbury Meadow Parndon Woods and Common

Rochford	Hockley Woods Kendal Park Magnolia Fields Marylands

Southend-on-Sea	Belfairs Belton Hills Gunners Park Shoeburyness Old Ranges Southend on Sea Foreshore

Tendring	Holland Haven Pickers Ditch Meadow Wrabness

Thurrock	Grove House Wood Linford Wood

Essex Wildlife Trust

Basildon	Langdon Nature Reserve

Braintree	Brookes Nature Reserve

Brentwood	Thorndon Countryside Centre Warley Place

Castle Point	Little Haven Pound Wood Tile Wood

Chelmsford	Crowsheath Wood Danbury Ridge Hanningfield Reservoir Little Waltham Meadows Newland Grove Phyllis Currie Sandylay and Moat Woods Shotgate Thickets Thrift Wood Woodham Fen

Colchester	Abberton Reservoir Abbotts Hall Farm Fingringhoe Wick Iron Latch Lexden Gathering Grounds Ray Island Roman River Valley Sergeants Orchard Tiptree Heath Westhouse Wood

Epping Forest	Gernon Bushes Roding Valley Meadows

Harlow	Hunsdon Mead

Havering	Bedfords Park Cranham Marsh Ingrebourne Valley

Maldon	Blue House Farm Bradwell Shell Bank Chigborough Lakes Maldon Wick Oxley Meadow Shut Heath Wood Stow Maries Halt Tollesbury Wick

Rochford	Lion Creek and Lower Raypits

Southend-on-Sea	Belfairs Gunners Park and Shoebury Ranges Two Tree Island

Tendring	Cockaynes Wood Colne Point Copperas Wood Great Holland Pits Howlands Marsh John Weston Nature Reserve The Naze Oakfield Wood Skippers Island Wrabness

Thurrock	Grove House Wood Linford Wood Chafford Gorges Nature Park Fobbing Marsh Horndon Meadow Stanford Warren Thurrock Thameside Nature Park

Uttlesford	Aubrey Buxton Rushy Mead Sawbridgeworth Marsh Shadwell Wood Weeleyhall Wood West Wood

Coordinates: 51°37′42″N 0°03′53″E / 51.6284°N 0.0646°E / 51.6284; 0.0646

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