About the reserve

This site has never been ploughed, and as a result retains much of the wildlife that has lived here for centuries. We manage it as a traditional meadow, harvesting hay in late summer followed by grazing. The varied flora attracts a wide range of insects. The most frequently recorded butterflies are orange tip, peacock, small tortoiseshell, meadow brown and ringlet, and the red-headed cardinal beetle is just one of 48 species of beetle known to live here. 

The wildflowers include great burnet, pepper-saxifrage and pignut. In summer betony shows an impressive display of colour, along with the purple-blue of devil’s-bit scabious. As a Coronation Meadow we have collected the seeds of wildflowers here to sow at other meadows as part of the Coronation Meadows scheme. Hedgelaying on a rotation maintains a bushy barrier for the meadow, and provides a home for many birds such as finches and blackcap and other warblers.  

Additional information

• Scroll down to see the reserve boundary. Please note the boundary map is for indication purposes only and does not show the Wildlife Trusts definitive land boundary. 

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