Albans Wood

Albans Wood is a 4.1 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Watford in Hertfordshire. It is owned and managed by Watford Borough Council.^[1]^[2]

The site is ancient semi-natural woodland. It is mainly oak with other trees including beech, horse chestnut and sweet chestnut. There are mammmals such as muntjac deer and noctule bats, butterflies including purple hairstreak and speckled wood, and birds such as great spotted woodpeckers and nuthatches.^[1]

There is access from Sheepcot Lane.

External links

Albans Wood, Watford Borough Council

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References

↑ 1.0 1.1 "Albans Wood". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 13 March 2013. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
↑ "Map of Albans Wood". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 1 April 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

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, St Albans

Three Rivers	Batchworth Heath 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 Hilfield Park Reservoir 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

Coordinates: 51°41′39″N 0°23′54″W / 51.6941°N 0.3983°W / 51.6941; -0.3983