Covert Way
Pasture area in Covert Way
Path in Covert Way woodland
Covert Way is the only Local Nature Reserve in the London Borough of Enfield.[1][2] It is also part of the Hadley Wood Golf Course and Covert Way Field Site of Borough Importance for Nature Conservation, Grade I,[3] and it has an area of 7 hectares.[4] It is on the southern border of Enfield between the road named Covert Way and Monken Hadley Common in Barnet.
Part of the site is semi-deciduous woodland which has woodpeckers and muntjac deer, and butterflies including white-letter and purple hair-streaks.[1] In grassland areas there are the rare adder's-tongue fern and the locally scarce four-spot orb weaver spider.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Covert Way". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 4 March 2013. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
- ↑ "Map of Covert Way". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Hadley Wood Golf Course and Covert Way Field". Greenspace Information for Greater London. 2013. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
- ↑ "Covert Way Field". Greenspace Information for Greater London. 2013. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
External links
- "Covert Way, a London Borough of Enfield wood". Woodland Trust.
- "iGiGL the data portal of Greenspace Information for London". Greenspace Information for Greater London. 2013.
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