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Fobbing Marsh
Type	Nature reserve
Location	Fobbing, Essex
OS grid	TQ 731 846
Area	75.7 hectares
Managed by	Essex Wildlife Trust

Fobbing Marsh is a 75.7-hectare (187-acre) nature reserve east of Fobbing in Essex. It is managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust.

The site is mainly grazing marshes, but there are also areas of rough grassland, saltmarsh, seawalls and reedbed. Flowering plants include hairy buttercup, knotted hedge-parsley and the nationally rare least lettuce. There are breeding birds such as Corn buntings and yellow wagtails.

There is access by a footpath from Marsh Lane.

References

1. ^ "Fobbing Marsh". Essex Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 3 November 2016.

51°32′02″N 0°29′42″E / 51.534°N 0.495°E / 51.534; 0.495

• Essex Wildlife Trust