Location: Cripps Corner, near Battle, East Sussex
Website: Woodland Trust
Grid Reference: TQ796203(OS Map)
OS Map: 199
Terrain: some paths can get waterlogged or are rutted and there is a moderate hill
Route: Footpaths
Directions/Transport: Contact Traveline on 0871 200 2233 for details
Car Park Information: Small car park on B2089 Broad Oak to Cripps Corner road on northern edge
Features:
Visitors to Brede have said it's like walking through 10 different woods on one site. It's special for its rare green hellebores and wild service trees, but also for hobby, woodcock, nightingales and buzzards, glowworms, great crested newts, lampreys, dormouse, badgers and fallow deer.
Brede's woodland is so undisturbed that a beetle thought to be extinct elsewhere in the UK lives here. Some parts of Brede are ancient woodland; other parts were farmed, coppiced or planted with conifers, which are gradually being removed. Some coppicing will be continued, and Brede's paths and bridges will be maintained to allow everyone to come and enjoy this wonderful site.
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