Nature Reserves

Birches Farm boasts a stunning array of wild flowers across a patchwork of fields. The meadows and pastures are bordered by thick hedgerows and there are two ponds. The reserve is a nationally…

Bodenham Lake is an important overwintering and breeding area for birds and other aquatic wildlife, so approximately half of the site is managed as a wildlife refuge with restricted public access…

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

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

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

An ancient unimproved grassland with a rich flora

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

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

A patchwork of small meadows and orchards rich in wildlife.

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