Ail Meadow is a lowland pasture that lies within the wonderful, wildlife-rich landscape of the Woolhope Dome, very close to our own Wessington Pasture Nature Reserve.

We took on management of the meadows in March 2023 and are now beginning to restore the site for wildlife and for people.

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.

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.