Covert Way is the only Local Nature Reserve in the London Borough of Enfield.[1][2] It is also part of the Hadley Wood Golf Course and Covert Way Field Site of Borough Importance for Nature Conservation, Grade I,[3] and it has an area of 7 hectares.[4] It is on the southern border of Enfield between the road named Covert Way and Monken Hadley Common in Barnet.
Part of the site is semi-deciduous woodland which has woodpeckers and muntjac deer, and butterflies including white-letter and purple hairstreaks.[1] In grassland areas there are the rare adder's-tongue fern and the locally scarce four-spot orb weaver spider.[3]
- ^ a b "Covert Way". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 4 March 2013. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
- ^ "Map of Covert Way". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
- ^ a b "Hadley Wood Golf Course and Covert Way Field". Greenspace Information for Greater London. 2013. Archived from the original on 22 October 2013. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
- ^ "Covert Way Field". Greenspace Information for Greater London. 2013. Archived from the original on 21 February 2014. Retrieved 14 August 2013.