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THE FUZZ, HADLEIGH
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The Fuzz is a Local Nature Reserve on the south-eastern edge of Hadleigh, about ½ mile from the town centre, owned and managed by Babergh District Council.
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 The Fuzz is a Local Nature Reserve on the south-eastern edge of Hadleigh, about ½ mile from the town centre, owned and managed by Babergh District Council. Houses adjoin it on two sides. The Fuzz acts as a gateway into the wider countryside being connected to the Hadleigh Railway Walk and a public right of way.
The Fuzz can be accessed from the Railway Walk, Stockton Close, Carlton Walk and Cranworth Road. There are small car parks at the Station Road end of the Railway Walk and at the end of Cranworth Road.
The Fuzz probably got its name from “Furze”, which is another name for gorse. Gorse, and its relative, broom, colonised this site naturally due to its acid sandy soil. The yellow flowers they both produce can be seen in just about every month of the year – hence the old saying “Love is out of season when the gorse is out of bloom”.
In 1837, The Fuzz was shown as open fields. The tunnel under the railway line was built in the 1840’s to enable cattle to move from one side of Priory Farm to the other. In the 1930’s and 1940’s there was small scale sand and gravel extraction, possibly for making sand bags, with the effect of sculpting the landscape into what we see today – a secretive place where one can forget about the worries of the civilised world for a while and thrill to the sounds of nature. |
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Last updated on: 07 May 2009 | Date of next review: 07 May 2010
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