Mellis Common

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| name = Mellis Common

| photo = Mellis Common - geograph.org.uk - 311627.jpg

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| type = Nature reserve

| grid_ref_UK = TM100746

| location = Mellis, Suffolk

| area = 59 hectares

| manager = Suffolk Wildlife Trust

}}

Mellis Common is a 59 hectare nature reserve in Mellis in Suffolk. It is managed by the Suffolk Wildlife Trust.{{cite web|url= http://www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org/reserves/mellis-common |title= Mellis Common |publisher= Suffolk Wildlife Trust |accessdate= 3 August 2017}}

The common has changed little over hundreds of years, and is still managed by traditional methods of grazing and hay cutting. Flora include green-winged orchid, sulphur clover and adder’s tongue fern, and owls hunt small mammals.

There is access from Mellis Road.

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