Aubrey Buxton Reserve, Alsa Street, Stansted.

Stansted - Essex Wildlife Trust - TL52172644 - Access Free on foot at all times - High woodland, grassland; lakes

Audley End House grounds.

Saffron Walden -English Heritage - TL52333802 - Entry and car park charge - The Lake can be viewed from the road bridge - good for birds and bats, (bats on summer evenings).

Bendysh Woods

Radwinter - Forestry Commission - TL61873975 - Access Free on foot at all times - Ancient oxlip woods, once designated as SSSI but damaged by coniferisation. Now under restoration to natural broad-leaved woodlands with wide rides and formerly rich flora but damaged by vehicle ruts

Birchanger Wood

Birchanger / Bishop's Stortford - Birchanger Woods Trust - TL50572246 - Access Free on foot at all times - Ancient coppice bluebell wood

Flitch Way Dunmow Cutting

Runs from Hatfield Forest through Takely, Great Dunmow, Felstead to Braintree - Essex County Council - TL51942126 to TL71462210 - Access Free on foot at all times and a National Cycle Network route - The old railway line from Braintree to Bishop's Stortford: now a linear country park with a mix of habitats, and good wildflowers in the cutting just west of Great Dunmow

Garnetts Wood

High Easter - Essex County Council - TL63491845 - Access Free on foot at all times - Ancient coppice woodland, Small leaved Lime, ponds and streams

Harrison Sayer

Hadstock - Essex Wildlife Trust - TL55754412 - Access Free on foot at all times - Boulder clay grassland with rare wildflowers

Hatfield Forest

Hatfield Broad Oak - National Trust - TL54722024 - Access Free on foot at all times, but with Car parking charges - SSSI: An incredible survival of a medieval Forest: the most important in England

Linnets Wood

Ugley - Woodland Trust - TL51622723 - Access Free on foot at all times - Small plantation of recently created woodland

Little Hales Wood

Ashdon - Forestry commission - TL57603428 - Access Free on foot at all times. Park in the field entry opposite 'Barleycroft' - Coniferised wood now being de-coniferised. Woodland flora, butterflies, deer

Onslow Green

Barnston - Essex Wildlife Trust - TL66547182 - Access Free on foot at all times - Small village green and ponds

Rowney Wood

Debden - Forestry Commission - TL57603428 - Access Free on foot at all times, parking in the road chippings bay opposite Carver Barracks, Elder Street. - Ancient woodland replanted to conifers and now returned to native woodland.

Rushy Mead

Great Hallingbury - Essex Wildlife Trust - TL49791965 - Access Free on foot at all times - Wetlands by the River Stort

Sawbridgeworth Marsh

Little Hallingbury - Essex Wildlife Trust - TL49391598 - Access Free on foot at all times - Natural springs feed this waterlogged marsh. Good for spring flowers including Southern Marsh Orchid

Shadwell Wood

Ashdon - Essex Wildlife Trust - TL57364123 - Access Free on foot at all times. Park in the field entry opposite 'Barleycroft'on the east side of the road and walk back across the road and along the track beside 'Barleycroft' - A worked coppice wood cut on a rotational pattern with Spring flowers including Oxlip in mid-April

Sweetings Meadow

Lindsell - Essex wildlife Trust - TL63232859 - Access Free on foot at all times - Small orchard with traditional Apple varieties and meadow flowers

Turner's Spring

Stansted - Essex Wildlife Trust - TL52922417 - Access Free on foot at all times - Broadleaved Bluebell wood plus ancient meadow

Wall Wood

Great Hallingbury - National Trust - TL52761868 - Access Free on foot at all times - Ancient woodland adjacent to Hatfield Forest

West Wood

Little Sampford - Essex Wildlife Trust - TL62403320 - Access Free on foot at all times - SSSI: ancient oxlip wood, great crested newts, orchids

Woodside Green

The Hallingburys - National Trust - TL51791843 - Access Free on foot at all times - Ancient pasture