Hoppit Mead is a 9.2-hectare (22.7 acres) Local Nature ReserveStatutory designation allowing principal local authorities to protect areas containing wildlife or geological features of particular local interest. in Braintree, Essex, owned and managed by Braintree District Council.^[1]

The linear site comprises formal park areas, wildflower meadows, scrub, wet woodland and coppice, and lies within a chain of Public Open Spaces being developed by Braintree District Council known as the John Ray Park. The River Brain runs through the south of the site.^[1][2]

Hoppit Mead is particularly associated with the 17th-century naturalist and theologian John Ray, a pioneer in the study of natural history in England. His observations of wild blackcurrant bushes in the wet woodland, provided evidence that they are native to the the UK.^[1]