Covert Way

Protected area in North London, England

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 hairstreaks.^[1] In grassland areas there are the rare adder's-tongue fern and the locally scarce four-spot orb weaver spider.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b "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.
^ ^a ^b "Hadley Wood Golf Course and Covert Way Field". Greenspace Information for Greater London. 2013. Archived from the original on 22 October 2013. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
^ "Covert Way Field". Greenspace Information for Greater London. 2013. Archived from the original on 21 February 2014. Retrieved 14 August 2013.

External links

"Covert Way, a London Borough of Enfield wood". Woodland Trust. Archived from the original on 2012-09-15. Retrieved 2013-08-14.
"iGiGL the data portal of Greenspace Information for London". Greenspace Information for Greater London. 2013. Archived from the original on 2014-01-14. Retrieved 2013-08-14.

Local nature reserves in Greater London

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Beam Valley
Beam Valley (Environment Agency)
Dagenham Village Churchyard
Eastbrookend Country Park
Mayesbrook Park South
Parsloes Park Squatts
Ripple Nature Reserve
Scrattons Ecopark and extension
The Chase - Barking

Covert Way

Greenwich

Hackney

Abney Park Cemetery
Springfield Park

Hammersmith and Fulham

Wormwood Scrubs

Streatham Common

Lewisham

Merton

Redbridge

Hainault Lodge

Ainslie Wood

Wandsworth

Battersea Park Nature Areas

Westminster

St. John's Wood Church Grounds

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