Disused railway line, northwest of Waltham
Selected Wild Place / Other Wild Places / Public Rights of Way / VC55 boundary
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This place is the abandoned trackbed and cutting of the Great Northern Railway, Waltham branch, opened 1883 and closed 1964. It is a locally important biodiversity site and wildlife corridor. There are two main habitats: mixed scrub/trees (hawthorn, blackthorn, elder and dog rose, etc.) and rough grass The site is locally significant for wintering thrushes and finches and as a breeding site for otherwise locally-scarce farmland and woodland birds, mammals and invertebrates. General access is by landowner's permission only (all of the track is used by a pheasant shooting syndicate), although there is public access at the point where it is crossed by Public Rights of Way E89 and E92.
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