Once a railway stop on the Maldon-South Woodham Ferrers line, the disused remains have been claimed back by nature

Essex’s great transformation story, enjoy birdwatching and walking trails along the banks of the Thames.

The Naze is a unique coastal landscape of outstanding geological and biological importance. As the most easterly peninsula in Essex it is an important site for migrating birds and boasts a number…

The Thorndon Nature Discovery Centre is situated in Thorndon Country Park. There are some fantastic walks through ancient woodland and historic deer parks which lie close alongside recently…

Listen out for the drumming of woodpeckers, the singing trills of the nightingale and warblers and even the sounds of wood ant colonies scuttling along.

One of the earliest ancient woods recorded in south-east Essex, this woodland is an important wildlife corridor in the Daws Heath woodland landscape

The only place in Essex where you will find all three Heather species growing together and the largest area of lowland heathland in the county

With the backdrop of the infamous red lightship, walk along the famous Essex marshes and experience wild Essex at its best

Adjacent to the internationally protected Thames Estuary, Two Tree Island is a winter refuge for a huge variety of winter wildfowl and waders

Warley Place is open every day during daylight hours. This 25 acre reserve is the site of a house and once famous Edwardian gardens belonging to Ellen Willmott, it is now maintained as a nature…