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View over meadows bordered by hedges

Birches Farm

Birches Farm boasts a stunning array of wild flowers across a patchwork of fields. The meadows are bordered by thick hedgerows and there are two ponds at the site. The reserve is recognised as a…

  • Birdwatching
  • Butterflies
  • Fungi
  • Historical interest
  • Spring flowers
View of tree-lined lake with bird hide

Bodenham Lake

Bodenham Lake is an important overwintering and breeding area for birds and other aquatic wildlife and half of the site is managed as a wildlife refuge with restricted public access. More than 160…

  • Birdwatching
  • Overwintering birds
  • Spring migrant birds
Woodland stream

Brilley Green Dingle

A wooded reserve showing the results of different management histories within an area.

  • Ancient trees
  • Birdwatching
  • Exploring woods
  • Fungi
  • Getting away from it all
Scrub with foxgloves and bracken

Canon Tump Common

A triangular reserve containing mostly neutral grassland, bounded at the north and south by woodland.

  • Getting away from it all
View across field of grass with flowers

Cethins Meadow

Cethins Meadow, and nearby Little Marises Meadow, are unimproved, species-rich, lowland neutral grassland fields lying within the Black Mountains Valley Living Landscape.

  • Butterflies
  • Insect spotting
  • Wildflowers
Wildflower Meadow with wooded slope behind

Christopher Cadbury Reserve

An ancient unimproved grassland with a rich flora

  • A family day out
  • Birdwatching
  • Butterflies
  • Getting away from it all
  • Historical interest
Woodland trees with bracken covering woodland floor

Clay Vallets Wood

An ancient woodland clearly showing how it has developed from historical management practices

  • A romantic stroll
  • A sense of the wild
  • Ancient trees
  • Autumn colour
  • Exploring woods
Water seen through dark silhouettes of trees, low sun behind

Clifford Common

A riverside common, grading into scrub and woodland along part of the route of an old tramway.

  • Birdwatching
  • Butterflies
  • Stunning views
  • Tranquil waters
Sloping meadow with tall purple flowers and hedgerow and trees behind

Common Hill

A patchwork of small meadows and orchards rich in wildlife.

  • Butterflies
  • Historical interest
  • Spring flowers
  • Wildflowers
MarshFritillary

Coughton Marsh

The last remnant of a much larger peaty wetland area that existed in the 19th century

  • Fungi
  • Spring flowers
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