Hunsdon Mead

Hunsdon Mead is a 34 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) west of Harlow and east of Roydon in Essex.The site is partly in Essex and partly in Hertfordshire, and it is jointly owned and managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust and the Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust.As a result of its location and traditional management it supports a number of uncommon plants.Notable grass species include meadow brome and the quaking grass Briza media, and there are other unusual flora such as pepper saxifrage and green-winged orchid.Roydon Mead lies east of the Stort Navigation, and both have large flocks of over-wintering birds.
Site of Special Scientific InterestLocationHertfordshireGrid referenceHarlowRoydonEssex Wildlife TrustHerts and Middlesex Wildlife TrustEast Hertfordshire District CouncilEpping Forest District Councilcommon landRiver StortStort Navigationmeadow bromequaking grassBriza mediapepper saxifragegreen-winged orchidList of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in HertfordshireList of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in EssexSites of Special Scientific InterestAldbury NowersAlpine MeadowAmwell QuarryAshridge Commons and WoodsAshwell SpringsBenington High WoodBlagrove CommonBricket Wood CommonCroxley Common MoorFrogmore MeadowsGreat Hormead ParkHertford HeathKnebworth WoodsMoor Hall MeadowsNorthaw Great WoodOddy Hill and Tring ParkPatmore HeathPlashes WoodRedwell WoodRoughdown CommonRye MeadsSarratt BottomSawbridgeworth MarshSherrardspark WoodTewinburyTherfield HeathThorley Flood PoundTring ReservoirsTring WoodlandsTurnford and Cheshunt PitsWain WoodWater End Swallow HolesWhippendell WoodWormley-Hoddesdonpark Wood NorthWormley-Hoddesdonpark Wood SouthCastle Lime Works QuarryDownfield Pit, WestmillHillcollins PitLittle Heath PitMoor Mill Quarry, WestOughtonhead LaneWestwood QuarrySites of Special Scientific Interest in EssexBiologicalAbberton ReservoirAshdon MeadowsBasildon MeadowsBelcher's and Broadfield WoodsBenfleet and Southend MarshesBlackwater EstuaryBlake's Wood & Lingwood CommonBovingdon Hall WoodsBullock WoodCanvey WickCattawade MarshesChalkney WoodColne EstuaryThe Coppice, Kelvedon HatchCornmill Stream and Old River LeaCrouch and Roach EstuariesCurtismill GreenDanbury CommonDebden WaterDengieElsenham WoodsEpping ForestFoulnessGarnetts Wood and Barnston LaysGarrold's MeadowGlemsford PitsGrays Thurrock Chalk PitGreat Wood and Dodd's GroveHainault ForestHales and Shadwell WoodsHamford WaterHangman's Wood and DeneholesHanningfield ReservoirHarlow WoodsHatfield ForestHigh Wood, DunmowHockley WoodsHolehaven CreekHolland Haven MarshesInner Thames MarshesLittle Hallingbury MarshMill MeadowsMucking Flats and MarshesNorsey WoodNunn WoodPitsea MarshQuendon WoodRiddles WoodRoding Valley MeadowsRoman RiverSandbeach MeadowsStour and Copperas Woods, RamseyStour EstuaryThorndon ParkThrift Wood, Woodham FerrersThundersley Great CommonTiptree HeathUpper Colne MarshesVange and Fobbing MarshesWaltham AbbeyWeeleyhall WoodWest Thurrock Lagoon and MarshesWest Wood, Little SampfordWoodham Walter CommonGeologicalArdleigh Gravel PitClacton Cliffs and ForeshoreThe Cliff, Burnham-on-CrouchGlobe PitGoldsands Road PitHall's QuarryHarwich ForeshoreHolland-on-Sea CliffLion PitLittle Oakley Channel DepositLofts Farm PitMaldon CuttingMarks Tey BrickpitThe NazeNewney Green PitPurfleet Chalk PitsPurfleet Road, AveleyRiver TerSt Osyth PitWivenhoe Gravel PitDacorumLong DeansEast HertfordshireBalls WoodDanemeadKing's MeadsTewin Orchard and Hopkyns WoodThorley WashWaterford HeathWillowmeadHertsmereHilfield Park ReservoirNorth HertfordshireAshwell Quarry and Quarry SpringsFox CovertHawkins WoodHexton Chalk PitOughtonheadPurwell NinespringsStevenageRidlins MireThree RiversLongspring WoodStocker's LakeWatfordCassiobury ParkWelwyn HatfieldFir and Pond WoodsGobions WoodLemsford SpringsStanborough ReedmarshStocking Springs WoodHillingdonBroadwater LakeOld Park WoodUxbridge AldergladeBarkway Chalk PitDarland's Lake Nature ReserveHill End PitMarshalls HeathPryor's WoodRowley Green CommonTelegraph HillBasildonLangdon Nature ReserveBraintreeBrookes Nature ReserveBrentwoodThorndon Countryside CentreWarley PlaceCastle PointLittle HavenPound WoodTile WoodChelmsfordCrowsheath WoodDanbury RidgeLittle Waltham MeadowsNewland GrovePhyllis CurrieSandylay and Moat WoodsShotgate ThicketsThrift WoodWoodham FenColchesterAbbotts Hall FarmFingringhoe WickIron LatchLexden Gathering GroundsRoman River ValleySergeants OrchardWesthouse WoodGernon BushesHaveringBedfords ParkCranham MarshIngrebourne ValleyMaldonBlue House FarmBradwell Shell BankChigborough LakesMaldon WickOxley MeadowShut Heath WoodStow Maries HaltTollesbury WickRochfordLion Creek and Lower RaypitsSouthend-on-SeaBelfairsGunners Park and Shoebury RangesTwo Tree IslandTendringCockaynes WoodColne PointCopperas WoodGreat Holland PitsHowlands MarshJohn Weston Nature ReserveOakfield WoodSkipper's IslandWrabnessThurrockGrove House WoodLinford WoodChafford Gorges Nature ParkFobbing MarshHorndon MeadowStanford WarrenThurrock Thameside Nature ParkUttlesfordAubrey BuxtonRushy MeadShadwell WoodWest Wood