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Educational Offer
Bring your nursery, school or college to one of Essex Wildlife Trust’s outstanding education facilities or we can bring our expertise to you.
Exploring the great outdoors is incredibly worthwhile for all ages. Students will gain knowledge and develop practical skills through programmes linked to the curriculum or make use of numerous enrichment opportunities at our education centres or at your site. We cater for all ages and abilities. We also offer: Forest School, schools outreach, and INSET training .
As well as the website link above, you could also look at our activities here: www.wildlifewatch.org.uk/Learning and www.wildlifewatch.org.uk/activities.
Links to Topic Activities
Site Contact Details
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Email: Learnlan@essexwt.org.uk
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Tel: 01621 862960
Location
Lower Dunton Road, Basildon, SS16 6EJ
Site Summary
- 210 hectares (461 acres)
- Langdon nature reserve is the largest inland reserve managed by Essex Wildlife Trust.
- Wildlife garden, woodland, meadows, lakes and former plotland gardens.
- Museum of Plotland Life.
Site History
- The site once accommodated 200 ‘plotland bungalows’.
- The Plotland properties were built by families (mainly from London's East End).
- Although originally intended as holiday homes, the Second World War meant that many families came to live in their Plotland homes permanently.
- The Haven is now a museum, dedicated to showing people what life was like during the difficult years of the 1930s and 1940s.
Land of the Fanns Teacher Briefing
Some sites have a Teacher Briefing available at the top of the page, but the following download is a general Teacher Briefing for The Land of the Fanns. We recommend you download this briefing before visiting any of the sites listed on this resource.
Download Teacher BriefingGallery
Landscape and Habitat
- Woodland
- Meadows
- Lakes
- Gardens
Wildlife
- Badgers, Foxes and Weasels
- Turtledoves, Nightingales, Woodcock, Thrushes and Finches
- 30 butterfly species including White Admiral, Green Hairstreak, Marbled White and Grizzled Skipper
Plants and Trees
- Over 350 wild flowering plants
- 7 species of wild orchids in bloom in May and June
