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Explore the beautiful Blackwater Estuary
Copt Hall Lane, Little Wigborough, Essex, CO5 7RD
Under close control or on leads. Please keep to the marked trails.
No toilets. Some areas may be difficult to access.
Copt Hall Lane, Little Wigborough, Essex, CO5 7RD
Working farm on the remote Blackwater Estuary. Important area for breeding birds such as the lapwing and barn owl.
Explore Copt Hall Marshes, a wildlife-rich working farm on the Blackwater Estuary, part of the extensive Essex coastline.
A cosy gate lodge on the side of a 17th-century Suffolk farmhouse.
A striking eight-bedroom farmhouse with fine historic detailing throughout.
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Under leaden skies with a face full of wind there's nowhere like Copt Hall for refreshing the mind and blowing away the cobwebs.
As a working farm on the remote and beautiful Blackwater Estuary Copt Hall balances arable crop production and access with coastal nature conservation. Our work involves creating and maintaining a variety of wildlife rich habitats including nectar-rich areas for insects; field margins, scrub and hedgerows for farmland birds; and wet grassland and scrapes for waders and wildfowl.
Copt Hall is a really important area for breeding birds such as corn bunting, yellow hammer, skylark and barn owl, which have been encouraged by this work. The site is noted for overwintering wildfowl and waders including Brent geese, curlew and golden plover. These can be viewed on the fields and saltmarsh whilst enjoying a bracing walk around the farm trails and along the sea wall to our bird hide overlooking the scrapes.
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