Salary Brook
TypeLocal Nature Reserve
LocationColchester, Essex
OS gridTM027249
Area17.1 hectares
Managed byColchester 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]

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]

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

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.
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