Balls Wood

Balls Wood is a 58.5-hectare (145-acre) nature reserve managed by the

East Hertfordshire. The wood was purchased by the Trust from the Forestry Commission.^[1]

The northern part has mature coppiced hornbeams together with ash and field maple. There are breeding birds such as

early purple orchids. There are many ponds which support aquatic invertebrates.^[3]

References

^ "Wildlife trust saves Balls Wood". East Herts People. 1 April 2009. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
^ "Balls Wood". Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust. Archived from the original on 15 February 2015. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
^ "Balls Wood Nature Reserve". Wildlife Extra. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
^ "Map of Balls Wood, Hobbyhouse Wood and Hertford Heath nature reserves" (PDF). Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 15 February 2015.

v t e Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust
Dacorum	Aldbury Nowers Alpine Meadow Long Deans Tring Reservoirs
East Hertfordshire	Amwell Quarry Balls Wood Danemead Hertford Heath Hunsdon and Eastwick Meads King's Meads Patmore Heath Rye Meads Tewin Orchard and Hopkyns Wood Tewinbury Thorley Wash Waterford Heath Willowmead
Hertsmere	Hilfield Park Reservoir
North Hertfordshire	Ashwell Quarry and Quarry Springs Blagrove Common Fox Covert Hawkins Wood Hexton Chalk Pit Oughtonhead Purwell Ninesprings
Stevenage	Ridlins Mire
Three Rivers	Frogmore Meadows Longspring Wood Stocker's Lake
Watford	Cassiobury Park
Welwyn Hatfield	Fir and Pond Woods Gobions Wood Lemsford Springs Stanborough Reedmarsh Stocking Springs Wood
Hillingdon	Broadwater Lake Old Park Wood Uxbridge Alderglade
Former reserves	Barkway Chalk Pit Darland's Lake Nature Reserve Hill End Pit Marshalls Heath Pryor's Wood Rowley Green Common Sawbridgeworth Marsh Telegraph Hill