Shut Heath Wood

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

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

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| name = Shut Heath Wood

| photo = Twisted Oaks - geograph.org.uk - 1324983.jpg

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| type = Nature reserve

| grid_ref_UK = TL 853 133

| location = Great Totham, Essex

| area = 20.2 hectares

| manager = Essex Wildlife Trust

}}

Shut Heath Wood is a {{convert|20.2|hectare|acre|adj=on}} nature reserve Essex. It is managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust.{{cite web|url=http://www.essexwt.org.uk/reserves/shut-heath-wood |title= Shut Heath Wood |publisher= Essex Wildlife Trust |accessdate= 11 November 2016}}

Over half this site is managed as farmland, and the rest is ancient oak woodland also has coppiced sweet chestnut and hornbeam, with an understorey of ash, elder and hazel. Invertebrates include damselflies, dragonflies, glow-worms and wood ants. Common blooms found on the reserve in the summer include bluebells, bugles, cuckoo flowers, wood anemones, primroses, dog violets, and wood sorrels.

There is access by a footpath from Tiptree Road.