East Ham Nature Reserve

One of Britain's largest church yards is also a fantastic nature reserve, great for school trips, family visits, and even tracing your ancestors. The church is 800 years old, but the visitors centre is nearly new.
East Ham Nature Reserve

This seven-acre site has been a nature reserve since 1977, providing a haven for a huge range of plants and animals: everything from lizards to rare snails, and blue bells to black caps. it's great to wander round, have a sit down, and to teach children about the wildlife around them. Community Links manage the site and our school, Education Links, runs some classes in the visitors' centre, which also has useful things like toilets, leaflets, and preserved examples of some of the animals found on the site.