Waterford Heath

Waterford Heath south

Changing Places, a sculpture on the north heath by Andrew McKeown

Waterford Heath is a 35.2 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Waterford in Hertfordshire, England. It is owned by Lafarge Tarmac and managed by the Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust together with East Hertfordshire District Council and Lafarge.^[1]^[2]

The site is in two areas, the north and south heaths, divided by Vicarage Road. It was sand and gravel quarry until the early 1990s, after which work was undertaken to convert it to a "community nature park". It is mainly grassland, with areas of scrub, wood plantation and semi-natural woodland. Breeding birds include skylarks and willow warblers, and there are reptiles such as slow worms and grass snakes.^[1]^[3] The north heath has a sculpture (pictured) created by Andrew McKeown in 2000.

The site is open at all times and it has a car park on Vicarage Road.^[3]

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References

1 2 "Waterford Heath". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 16 March 2013. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
↑ "Map of Waterford Heath". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
1 2 "Waterford Heath". Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 4 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

Coordinates: 51°49′05″N 0°05′21″W / 51.8181°N 0.0892°W / 51.8181; -0.0892

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