Stanborough Reedmarsh

Stanborough Reedmarsh and the River Lea

Stanborough Reedmarsh is a 3.3 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire. It is owned by Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council and managed by the Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust.^[1]^[2]

The site is wet willow woodland on the bank of the River Lea. It is important for water voles and birds such as reed and sedge warblers.^[1] Water figwort, common meadow rue and water chickweed grow along the river bank.^[3]

There is access to the site from Stanborough Road through Stanborough Park.^[3]

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References

1 2 "Stanborough Reedmarsh". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 14 March 2013. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
↑ "Map of Stanborough Reedmarsh". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
1 2 "Stanborough Reedmarsh". Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 16 February 2015.

Local Nature Reserves in Hertfordshire

Broxbourne	Cheshunt Park Top Field and Cozens Grove

Dacorum	Howe Grove Wood Shrubhill Common

East Hertfordshire	Waterford Heath

Hertsmere	Fisher's Field Furzefield Wood and Lower Halfpenny Hilfield Park Reservoir

North Hertfordshire	Ivel Springs Norton Common Oughtonhead Common Purwell Meadows Therfield Heath Weston Hills

St Albans	Batford Springs Colney Heath Marshalls Heath Watercress Wildlife Site Wheathampstead The Wick

Three Rivers	Chorleywood Common Chorleywood House Estate Croxley Common Moor Oxhey Woods Prestwick Road Meadows Rickmansworth Aquadrome Stockers Lake The Withey Beds

Watford	Albans Wood Cassiobury Park Garston Park Harebreaks Wood The Lairage Land

Welwyn Hatfield	The Commons Danesbury Park Howe Dell Mardley Heath Northaw Great Wood Country Park Oxleys Wood Sherrardspark Wood Singlers Marsh Stanborough Reedmarsh

Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust

Dacorum	Aldbury Nowers Alpine Meadow Long Deans Tring Reservoirs

East Hertfordshire	Amwell Quarry Balls Wood Danemead Hertford Heath Hunsdon and Eastwick Meads King's Meads Patmore Heath Rye Meads Tewin Orchard and Hopkyns Wood Tewinbury Thorley Wash Waterford Heath Willowmead

Hertsmere	Hilfield Park Reservoir

North Hertfordshire	Ashwell Quarry and Quarry Springs Blagrove Common Fox Covert Hawkins Wood Hexton Chalk Pit Oughtonhead Purwell Ninesprings

St Albans	Broad Colney Lakes

Stevenage	Ridlins Mire

Three Rivers	Frogmore Meadows Longspring Wood Stocker's Lake

Watford	Cassiobury Park

Welwyn Hatfield	Fir and Pond Woods Gobions Wood Lemsford Springs Stanborough Reedmarsh Stocking Springs Wood

Hillingdon	Broadwater Lake Old Park Wood Uxbridge Alderglade

Former reserves	Barkway Chalk Pit Darland's Lake Nature Reserve Hill End Pit Marshalls Heath Pryor's Wood Rowley Green Common Sawbridgeworth Marsh Telegraph Hill

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