Clarke's Pool Meadows
One of the finest surviving traditional hay meadows in Gloucestershire, Clarke's Pool Meadow is a sanctuary for small mammals and meadow flora.
Our reserves are there for you to explore, so grab your walking boots, pack up a picnic and a flask of tea and discover the wild places on your doorstep.
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One of the finest surviving traditional hay meadows in Gloucestershire, Clarke's Pool Meadow is a sanctuary for small mammals and meadow flora.
Sitting at the foot of the Golden Valley, Blackness Banks is a key steppingstone linking important habitats in the Golden Valley to those on Rodborough and Minchinhampton Commons.
A small semi-natural broadleaved woodland on the western edge of Chippenham.
The meadows and ancient woodland at Ridley Bottom have an undisturbed atmosphere, with old limestone hedgerows, grassland flowers and a quiet atmosphere that attracts a variety of birds.
Hidden along the bottom of the Golden Valley, Dimmel’s Dale has wildflower-rich west-facing banks, a babbling brook and a woodland, offering a rich variety of habitats for wildlife. <br />…
Wet meadows and an ox-bow lake, abundant in migrant and water birds, butterflies and dragonflies.
Slow worms warming themselves up under rocks, lizards basking on sunny gorse, woodcocks performing their 'roding' display flight at dusk and evidence of hazelnuts chewed by dormice –…
This area of wildflower-rich grassland is home to plants such as soft-leaved sedge and common wintergreen, as well as a pond and wooded quarry area with dormice.
Three Groves Wood is part of a large block of ancient woodland dominated by beech on the north side of the Frome Valley.
Commanding views towards Bath with ancient woodland and flower-rich grasslands where rare orchids grow.
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