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Tiptree Parish Field

nature Reserve

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ28445681 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tiptree Parish Field is a 2.2 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Tiptree in Essex, England. It is owned and managed by Tiptree Parish Council.

The site is on a field adjacent to Park Lane, an ancient road between Tiptree and Tolleshunt Knights. In 1976 the council purchased the land for sports facilities, but these were never constructed due to shortage of funds, and in the 1990s the area became a nature reserve. It has acid rough grassland with young oak woodland, and a pond which was created by widening Layer Brook.

There is access to the site from Park Lane, off Newbridge Road. Tiptree Parish Field is the eastern half of the larger Park Lane Nature Reserve.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Tiptree Parish Field” is nature Reserve. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Tiptree, Parish and Field, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1976—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Tiptree, Parish and Field is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28445681. Authority coordinates are 51.813, 0.753. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1976.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tiptree Parish Field” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.