title: Alderman Canal East
text: # Alderman Canal East
  
  Alderman Canal East is a 1.6 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Ipswich in Suffolk. It is owned by Ipswich Borough Council and managed by the Greenways Countryside Project.
  
  A path runs along a canalised part of the River Gipping, and the site also has reedbeds, a ditch and grassland with tall herbs. There are uncommon wetland flora, and birds include spotted flycatchers, common kingfishers and reed buntings.
  
  There is access from Alderman Road.
  
  