Hoppit Mead

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| name = Hoppit Mead

| photo = Hoppit Mead 2.jpg

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| type = Local Nature Reserve

| grid_ref_UK = TL752221

| location = Braintree, Essex

| area = 9.2 hectares

| manager = Braintree District Council

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Hoppit Mead is a 9.2 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Braintree in Essex. It is owned and managed by Braintree District Council.{{cite web|url=https://designatedsites.naturalengland.org.uk/SiteLNRDetail.aspx?SiteCode=L1481526|title=Hoppit Mead |series=Local Nature Reserves|publisher=Natural England| date = 29 April 2014 |accessdate=27 October 2024}}{{cite web|url=http://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.aspx?startTopic=Designations&activelayer=lnrIndex&query=REF_CODE%3D%271481526%27 |title=Map of Hoppit Mead|series=Local Nature Reserves|publisher=Natural England| accessdate= 22 May 2016}}

This linear site has formal park areas, wildflower meadows, scrub, wet woodland and coppice. The River Brain runs through it. The seventeenth century naturalist John Ray made pioneering observations of wild blackcurrant bushes in the wet woodland.

There is access to the north-east corner at the junction of Godlings Way and Notley Road, and to the western end from London Road.