Covert Way Explained

Covert Way is the only Local Nature Reserve in the London Borough of Enfield.^{[1] [2]} It is also part of the Hadley Wood Golf Course and Covert Way Field Site of Borough Importance for Nature Conservation, Grade I,^[3] and it has an area of 7 hectares.^[4] It is on the southern border of Enfield between the road named Covert Way and Monken Hadley Common in Barnet.

Part of the site is semi-deciduous woodland which has woodpeckers and muntjac deer, and butterflies including white-letter and purple hairstreaks.^[1] In grassland areas there are the rare adder's-tongue fern and the locally scarce four-spot orb weaver spider.^[3]

External links

• Web site: Covert Way, a London Borough of Enfield wood. Woodland Trust. 2013-08-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20120915083049/http://visitwoods.org.uk/en/visit-woods/Pages/wood-details.aspx?wood=27969&site=Covert-Way#.UgvozayOm9E. 2012-09-15. dead.
• Web site: iGiGL the data portal of Greenspace Information for London. Greenspace Information for Greater London. 2013. 2013-08-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20140114132930/http://www.gigl.org.uk/online/. 2014-01-14. dead.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Covert Way . 4 March 2013. Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 14 August 2013.
2. Web site: Map of Covert Way. Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 14 August 2013.
3. Web site: Hadley Wood Golf Course and Covert Way Field. Greenspace Information for Greater London. 2013. 14 August 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131022203936/http://www.gigl.org.uk/online/site-Details.aspx?sID=EnBI07&sType=sinc. 22 October 2013. dead.
4. Web site: Covert Way Field. Greenspace Information for Greater London. 2013. 14 August 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20140221121939/http://www.gigl.org.uk/online/site-Details.aspx?sID=OS_En_0106&sType=park. 21 February 2014. dead.