This is located beyond the stream up to the embankment of the disused Haverhill to Sudbury railway line, which operated from 1865 until 1967.
With much of its length now covered with scrub and larger trees, the railway provides a valuable wildlife corridor. It offers food and shelter to a wide range of birds, animals, insects and plants and also links wild areas all the way from East Town Park, to Howe Road, to the west of Haverhill and beyond.
All five kilometres (3 miles) of the disused line is now part of the Haverhill Local Nature Reserve.
Wildlife to look for on this section include:
- wildflowers like the red campion
- orange-tip and speckled wood butterflies
- blackthorn, the first shrub to blossom in spring with its frothy white flowers, followed by blue damson-like fruit which can be used to make delicious sloe gin.
