Basildon Natural History Society
Get involved with your Local Group, we hold a range of events and activities throughout the year. New members are always welcome.
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Langdon Hub
The Hub is located at the Langdon Nature Discovery Centre, near Basildon and is available to hire for a wide range of events.
Visit a nature reserve
Essex Wildlife Trust manages over 100 nature reserves in Essex and 10 Nature Discovery Centres throughout Essex.
Wrabness Nature Reserve
Visit a reserve that is brimming with amazing bird species in every corner in every month of the year, with lovely views over the Stour Estuary
Monitoring our nature reserves
How does our ecological monitoring programme work?
Volunteering on our nature reserves
Hear from one of our wonderful volunteers to tell you more about volunteering on a nature reserve.
Horndon Meadow Nature Reserve
A small nature reserve where hundreds of wildflowers bloom in spring
Walk: Wrabness Nature Reserve
We will be walking round this lovely reserve on the Stour Estuary looking out for the varied wildlife that lives there.
Rushy Mead Nature Reserve
Once a pumping station for a sewage works, this nature reserve is now a haven for reedbed species and provides a home to the UK's most endangered mammal, the Water Vole
Oxley Meadow Nature Reserve
Experience the wonder of up to 75,000 Green-winged Orchids in this small meadow nature reserve
Aubrey Buxton Nature Reserve
Visit a beautifully wild nature reserve with its woodlands, ponds and species rich grasslands, filled with amazing wildlife
Brookes Nature Reserve
Step into this wonderful pocket of ancient woodland and meadows, filled with wildflowers in spring and butterflies in summer.