Whet Mead

Whet Mead
Map
TypeLocal Nature Reserve
LocationWitham, Essex
OS gridTL830138
Area10.1 hectares
Managed byWitham Town Council

Whet Mead, usually styled as Whetmead, is a 10.1 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Witham in Essex. It is owned by Braintree District Council and managed by Witham Town Council.[1][2][3]

This site was formerly a rubbish tip, and before that a sewage works. Most of it is grassland with many different flowering plants, and a range of butterflies, dragonflies and seed-eating birds. Mammals include wood mice, bank voles and pygmy shrews. There is also scrub and young woodland. The River Brain runs along the southern boundary, meeting the River Blackwater in the south-east corner.[1][4][5][6]

The only access to the site is from Blackwater Lane, off Maldon Road.

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  1. ^ a b "Whet Mead". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 16 March 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2024.
  2. ^ "Map of Whet Mead". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 11 July 2016.
  3. ^ "Council-Managed Sites". Witham Town Council. Retrieved 27 October 2024.
  4. ^ "Newsletter No 5" (PDF). The Essex Field Club. January 1993. Retrieved 11 July 2016.
  5. ^ "Whetmead Local Nature Reserve, Witham". Braintree District Council. Retrieved 27 October 2024.
  6. ^ "Whetmead Nature Reserve". Witham & Countryside Society. Retrieved 27 October 2024.