Spring Wood, Belstead

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

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

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| name = Spring Wood, Belstead

| photo = Spring Wood, Belstead 3.jpg

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| type = Local Nature Reserve

| grid_ref_UK = TM144413

| location = Ipswich, Suffolk

| area = 5.5 hectares

| manager = Greenways Project, Ipswich Borough Council

}}

Spring Wood is a 5.5 hectare Local Nature Reserve east of Belstead, on the southern outskirts of Ipswich in Suffolk. It is owned and managed by Ipswich Borough Council.{{cite web|url=http://www.lnr.naturalengland.org.uk/Special/lnr/lnr_details.asp?C=38&N=&ID=1136 |title= Spring Wood, Belstead|series=Local Nature Reserves|publisher=Natural England| date = 27 March 2013|accessdate= 14 August 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.aspx?startTopic=Designations&activelayer=lnrIndex&query=REF_CODE%3D%271009156%27 |title=Map of Spring Wood, Belstead|series=Local Nature Reserves|publisher=Natural England| accessdate= 14 August 2017}}

This ancient oak and hornbeam wood has an understorey of hazel. There are small-leaved limes in groups several metres in diameter, which are genetically one tree, as a result of coppicing decades ago.{{cite web|url=https://www.ipswich.gov.uk/sites/default/files/icd26a_-_lwn-autumn-2015.pdf|page=6|first =Alison|last=Mackay|title=Local Wildlife News|date=September–December 2015|publisher=Ipswich Borough Council| accessdate= 14 August 2017}}

There is access from the neighbouring Millennium Wood and by a footpath from Bobbits Lane.

{{commonscat|Spring Wood, Belstead}}