Withdean and Westdene Woods

Withdean and Westdene Woods


Type	Local Nature Reserve
Location	Brighton, East Sussex
OS grid	TQ 296 077
Area	7.9 hectares (20 acres)
Managed by	Brighton and Hove City Council and Sussex Wildlife Trust

Withdean and Westdene Woods is a 7.9-hectare (20-acre) Local Nature Reserve in four separate areas in Brighton in East Sussex. Most of the site is owned and managed by Brighton and Hove City Council. Withdean Woods is a 1-hectare (2.5-acre) nature reserve managed by the Sussex Wildlife Trust.

Many of the mature trees on this site were destroyed by the Great Storm of 1987, but it still has a range of mammals including foxes, badgers and common pipistrelle bats, while there are birds such as great spotted woodpecker and firecrests.

References

"Withdean and Westdene Woods". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
"Map of Withdean and Westdene Woods". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
^ "Withdean Woods". Sussex Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 20 December 2018.

v t e Local nature reserves in East Sussex
Brighton and Hove	Beacon Hill Benfield Hill Bevendean Down Ladies Mile Stanmer Park/Coldean Whitehawk Hill Wild Park/Hollingbury Withdean and Westdene Woods
Hastings	Church Wood and Robsack Wood Filsham Reed Beds Hastings Country Park and Fairlight Place Farm Marline Wood Old Roar Gill and Coronation Wood St Helen's Wood Summerfields Wood
Lewes	Castle Hill, Newhaven Chailey Common Railway Land, Lewes Seaford Head
Rother	Rye Harbour
Wealden	Arlington Reservoir Crowborough Country Park Hempstead Meadow Old Lodge Weir Wood Reservoir West Park, Uckfield

v t e Sussex Wildlife Trust
Brighton and Hove	Withdean Woods
Chichester	Burton and Chingford Ponds Cooksbridge Meadow Ebernoe Common Graffham Common Iping and Stedham Commons Levin Down The Mens Waltham Brooks West Dean Woods
Hastings	Filsham Reedbed Marline Valley
Horsham	Amberley Wildbrooks Woods Mill
Lewes	Ditchling Beacon Malling Down Seaford Head Southerham Farm
Rother	Flatropers Wood Gillham Woods Rye Harbour
Wealden	Brickfield Meadow Eridge Rocks Old Lodge Pevensey Marshes Selwyns Wood