Sandylay and Moat Woods

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TypeNature reserve
LocationGreat Leighs, Essex
Area7.5 hectares
Sandylay and Moat Woods
TypeNature reserve
LocationGreat Leighs, Essex
OS gridTL 733 175
Area7.5 hectares
Managed byEssex Wildlife Trust

Sandylay and Moat Woods is a 7.5-hectare (19-acre) nature reserve east of Great Leighs in Essex. It is owned and managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust.[1]

These adjacent woods are mainly coppiced small-leaved lime, with a small stream and many flowering plants, including wood anemones, sweet violets, spurge laurel, stinking iris and early purple orchid.[1]

There is access by a footpath from Mill Lane.[1]

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