Old Lodge is a 103.1-hectare (255-acre) Local Nature Reserve west of Crowborough in East Sussex. It is privately owned. It is managed by Sussex Wildlife Trust.^[1]^[2]^[3] It is part of Ashdown Forest, which is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I,^[4] a Special Area of Conservation,^[5] a Special Protection Area^[6] and a Site of Special Scientific Interest.^[7]

This highland site is mainly grassland and heather, with areas of gorse and scattered birch, oak, and Scots pine trees. Birds include common redstart and common crossbills and there are large nests of red wood ants.^[3]

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References

^ "Old Lodge, Nutley". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
^ "Map of Old Lodge, Nutley". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
^ ^a ^b "Old Lodge". Sussex Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
^ Ratcliffe, Derek, ed. (1977). A Nature Conservation Review. Vol. 2. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 115. ISBN 0521-21403-3.
^ "Designated Sites View: Ashdown Forest". Special Areas of Conservation. Natural England. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
^ "Designated Sites View: Ashdown Forest". Special Protection Areas. Natural England. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
^ "Designated Sites View: Ashdown Forest". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 10 January 2019.

v t e Local nature reserves in East Sussex
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Hastings	Church Wood and Robsack Wood Filsham Reed Beds Hastings Country Park and Fairlight Place Farm Marline Wood Old Roar Gill and Coronation Wood St Helen's Wood Summerfields Wood
Lewes	Castle Hill, Newhaven Chailey Common Railway Land, Lewes Seaford Head
Rother	Rye Harbour
Wealden	Arlington Reservoir Crowborough Country Park Hempstead Meadow Old Lodge Weir Wood Reservoir West Park, Uckfield

v t e Sussex Wildlife Trust
Brighton and Hove	Withdean Woods
Chichester	Burton and Chingford Ponds Cooksbridge Meadow Ebernoe Common Graffham Common Iping and Stedham Commons Levin Down The Mens Waltham Brooks West Dean Woods
Hastings	Filsham Reedbed Marline Valley
Horsham	Amberley Wildbrooks Woods Mill
Lewes	Ditchling Beacon Malling Down Seaford Head Southerham Farm
Rother	Flatropers Wood Gillham Woods Rye Harbour
Wealden	Brickfield Meadow Eridge Rocks Old Lodge Pevensey Marshes Selwyns Wood