About the reserve

The reserve comprises a block of three traditional Herefordshire hay-meadows, a small old orchard area, two ponds and a complex of old hedgerows. These meadows have always been farmed traditionally, and the main meadow has not been ploughed for over a hundred years. All the meadows are herb-rich with a wide variety of grasses. Common spotted and green winged orchids are also found.

Butterflies and moths to spot during late spring and summer including Marbled white, holly and common blue butterflies and six-spot burnet moths.  The star species is the small, black chimney sweeper moth, on the wing in June/July and recorded at only one other side in the county - our Christopher Cadbury nature reserve in Michaelchurch.