Gobions Wood

{{Short description|Nature reserve in Hertfordshire, England}}

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Gobions Wood is a 36 hectare nature reserve managed by the Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust in Brookmans Park in Hertfordshire.{{cite web|url=http://www.hertswildlifetrust.org.uk/reserves/gobions-wood|title=Gobions Wood|publisher=Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust|accessdate=27 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150420080334/http://www.hertswildlifetrust.org.uk/reserves/gobions-wood|archive-date=20 April 2015|url-status=dead}} The site was formerly owned by the Gobions Woodland Trust, a registered charity which was closed down in 2013 because it had ceased to exist.{{cite web|url=https://www.northmymmshistory.uk/2018/01/gobions-estate-north-mymms-hertfordshire.html#C2|title=Gobions Woodland Trust |publisher=North Mymms History Project|accessdate=21 August 2019}}{{cite web|url=http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/RemovedCharityMain.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=293797&SubsidiaryNumber=0|title=293797 - THE GOBIONS WOODLAND TRUST|publisher=Charity Commission for England and Wales|accessdate=27 September 2015}}

The site is mainly woodland, but additional habitats are grassland, hedges and ponds. There is also the remains of an eighteenth-century pleasure garden. 558 species of fungi have been found, two of which have not been recorded previously in Britain and over 100 which are scarce in Hertfordshire. Birds include blackcaps, chiffchaffs and nuthatches.

There is access by a footpath from Bluebridge Avenue.