Harebreaks Wood is 5.1 hectare Local Nature Reserve in

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in Hertfordshire. It is owned by

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and managed by the council and the Friends of Harebreaks Wood. The site is semi-natural woodland of oak, ash and cherry, which goes back to at least 1600. It is a remnant of a much larger wood known in the nineteenth century as Longspring and Leggatts Wood, and was grazed by livestock. Birds include great-spotted woodpecker, treecreeper and nuthatch, and there mammals such as muntjac deer and pipistrelle bats. There is access from Leggatts Way and The Harebreaks.

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