Linder's Field Nature Reserve

We have both been quite tired after our de-cluttering labours of the past week, and needed to have a quiet day to re-charge our batteries before gearing up for more work next week.

This afternoon we drove to Buckhurst Hill to go for a short walk in Linder’s Field. This 9-acre nature reserve was named after the Linder family, who bought the site in 1914 and loaned it to the local authority for many years, finally gifting it to them permanently in 1963.

It was a grey afternoon and there was very little colour to be seen (and a lot of mud underfoot!) so I have put together a collage to give a flavour of the reserve, which I hope will make for a more interesting blip.

Top left is one of the ornamental gates to the reserve, and bottom left is the habitat tower, which has four levels to accommodate various creatures such as slow-worms, reptiles, hedgehogs, bees, spiders, lacewings, earwigs and woodlice. Top right shows some of the blossom which is now proliferating, and the landscape photo at the bottom right shows the view looking east over the Central tube train line and the valley of the river Roding towards Chigwell and beyond. It’s hard to believe, when you’re standing at a five-bar gate looking across the fields, that you are only about twelve miles from central London.

We also enjoyed a FaceTime with the family on our return, so it’s been a lovely day.