The Wildlife & Trees
The Park
Lake Meadows Park is an area of approximately 16.685 hectares or 40 acres of public park to the west side of Billericay which provides a community facility for local residents and visitors to the town. For a small town, it provides a particularly beautiful area of open land, with mature trees and a large man-made lake that resemble a Capability Brown design of the eighteenth century, although, in fact, much of the park was not established until the early 20th century. A wide variety of water birds grace the lake and both well-established and new trees can be enjoyed at all seasons.
Trees Alder Ash Beech Birch Gingko Bilbao Cedar Cherry Sweet/Horse Chestnut Cypress Elder Sweet Gum Hawthorn Hazel Holly Hornbeam Horse Chestnut | Larch Lime Magnolia Pine Plane Poplar Maple Oak Dawn Redwood Rowan Sequoia Sycamore Walnut Wellingtonia Willow |
A tree walk has been created and a map, information sheet and a Children's quiz sheet is available from the Friends Information Centre when open
Birds Blackbird Bullfinch Blackcap Canada Goose Chaffinch Coot Goldfinch Greenfinch Crested Grebe Gull Sparrow Hawk Mallard | Moorhen Tawny Owls Robin Mandarin Duck Mute Swan Thrush Blue/Great/Coal/LongtailedTit Tree Creeper Garden Warbler Green Woodpeckers Greater & Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers |
Animals Badger Bats (Pipistrelle/Daubentons) Bumble bee Butterflies Cricket Fox Frog Grasshopper | Grass snake Hedgehog Smooth & Palmate Newts Grey Squirrel Rabbit Snail Toad Wood mouse |