Salary Brook Local Nature Reserve

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Salary Brook
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Type Local Nature Reserve
Location Colchester, Essex
OS grid TM027249
Area 17.1 hectares
Managed by Colchester Borough Council

Salary Brook Local Nature Reserve is a 17.1 hectare Local Nature Reserve covering a stretch of Salary Brook and its banks on the south-east outskirts of Colchester in Essex. It is owned and managed by Colchester Borough Council. [1] [2]

Colchester town in Essex, United Kingdom

Colchester is a historic market town and the largest settlement within the borough of Colchester in the county of Essex. Colchester was the first founded Roman city in Britain, and Colchester lays claim to be regarded as Britain's oldest recorded town. It was for a time the capital of Roman Britain, and is a member of the Most Ancient European Towns Network.

Essex County of England

Essex is a county in the south-east of England, north-east of London. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and London to the south-west. The county town is Chelmsford, the only city in the county. For government statistical purposes Essex is placed in the East of England region.

The site has a variety of habitats, with the brook itself, pasture, ponds and marsh. Fauna include four species of bats, water voles, lizards, nightingales and reed warblers. Berrimans Pasture has over one hundred plants, particularly ones typical of unimproved damp grasslands. [3]

European water vole species of mammal

The European water vole or northern water vole, is a semiaquatic rodent. It is often informally called the water rat, though it only superficially resembles a true rat. Water voles have rounder noses than rats, deep brown fur, chubby faces and short fuzzy ears; unlike rats their tails, paws and ears are covered with hair.

There is access from Scarfe Way, Sherbourne Road, Titania Close and Sandpiper Close. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Salary Brook LNR". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
  2. ↑ "Map of Salary Brook". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Salary Brook Local Nature Reserve". Colchester Borough Council. Retrieved 11 May 2016.

Coordinates: 51°53′09″N0°56′38″E / 51.8858°N 0.94396°E / 51.8858; 0.94396

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