With amazing views and ancient woodland, this little pocket of nature is worth visiting

Danbury Ridge Nature Reserves are a wonderful mosaic of woodland, common, heathland, streams and bogs

Two attractive woods adjacent to each other that in spring are covered with an array of woodland flowers

Visit this beautiful woodland in spring to be fully immersed in a sea of colour, as the wildflowers that carpet this ancient woodland show off their bright flowers

Sloping down to a tributary of the River Ter, this varied landscape is a great place to see Kingfishers and Dragonflies

Found on the rolling hills adjoining Danbury Common, Hitchcock's Meadow is wonderful mix of flower-rich ancient pasture, secondary woodland, scrubland and marsh

This ancient woodland is noted for its small-leaved lime coppice, an indication that the northern part of the wood has existed since prehistoric times.

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

Walk along the seawall around these two remote and wild nature reserves, where wildfowl and waders roost in their hundreds over winter and attractive salt marsh plants line the reserve during…

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.