This was formerly an arable field and is now being managed to benefit common lizards and slow-worms. The grassland is vital for foraging for slugs, snails and insects which make up their diet, together with log-piles which provide basking areas on sunny days.
Haverhill is important for its reptile populations, but unfortunately many sites are being lost to development.
Scrub is being cleared to encourage the railway embankments to revert to grassland, again to benefit reptiles, but also grasshoppers and bush-crickets as well as wildflowers like agrimony and knapweeds.
