Clapper Mead Woods is one of The Woodland Trust's 'Woods On Your Doorstep' woodlands created to commemorate the Millennium. It comprises mixed native woodland with a central feature of a granite stone bench.
https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/visiting-woods/woods/clapper-cross-woods/
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A Devon Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve
The River Torridge lies at the heart of this fine Culm grassland reserve. A patchwork of tradition meadows, plus woodland make for a wild slice of North Devon.
https://www.devonwildlifetrust.org/nature-reserves/volehouse-moor
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A Devon Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve
A patchwork of woodland and Culm grassland fields linked by traditional Devon hedge banks.
https://www.devonwildlifetrust.org/nature-reserves/veilstone-moor
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A Devon Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve
A Culm grassland, rich in nationally rare plant and insect species.
https://www.devonwildlifetrust.org/nature-reserves/stapleton-mire
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A Devon Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve
One of the best remaining areas of Culm grassland in Devon.
https://www.devonwildlifetrust.org/nature-reserves/meresfelle
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A Devon Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve
Exceptional grasslands with areas of 'smooth Culm'.
https://www.devonwildlifetrust.org/nature-reserves/mambury-moor
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A Devon Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve
A classic introduction to one of Devon's best remaining Culm grasslands.
https://www.devonwildlifetrust.org/nature-reserves/dunsdon
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The rolling ridges and plateaux of the Culm extend across north-west Devon and north-east Cornwall, reaching from the foot of Dartmoor in the southwest and the edge of the Cornish Killas in the west, to the spectacular Atlantic coast of cliffs and sandy beaches in the north. North-eastwards they meet the Exmoor landscape and stand high above the Devon Redlands. The open, often treeless, ridges are separated by an intricate pattern of small valleys forming the catchments of the Rivers Taw, Torridge and Mole. This is largely a remote and sparsely populated landscape.
http://publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/4292167?category=587130
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This distinctive type of damp pasture is generally found on commons, as a component of lowland fen, or in undeveloped corners of otherwise intensively farmed landscapes.
What is it? This moist, often tussocky (long and thick) grassland is found on flat or gently sloping land on peaty mineral soils in areas with higher rainfall (i.e. the west of the country), or on wetter peatlands in East Anglia. A variety of flowers such as meadow buttercup, devil’s-bit scabious, meadow thistle, ragged-Robin, water mint and self-heal are found with purple moor-grass and sharp-flowered rush. Where the soil is particularly low in nutrients, the vegetation becomes more heathy, with cross-leaved heath and tormentil. Scrub is common and the pasture is often bordered by hedgerows.
https://www.devonwildlifetrust.org/habitats/grassland/purple-moor-grass-and-rush-pasture
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Nestled in a Devon valley, Rosemoor blends formal and informal plantings to magical effect.
Rosemoor became home to Lady Anne Berry (1919–2019) and her mother following the death of her father, Sir Robert Horace Walpole, in 1931. Sir Robert had originally bought Rosemoor as a salmon fishing lodge. At that time the garden was, as Lady Anne described it, ‘dull and labour intensive, typically Victorian, with a great use of annuals in beds around the house.’ During the 1930s, Lady Anne’s mother created The Stone Garden, the first area of hard landscaping at Rosemoor, which still lies at the heart of the old garden.
During the 1960s Lady Anne joined the RHS and was soon invited to judge woody plants and new introductions in one of its committees. By the late 1970s she had helped found the National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens (now known as Plant Heritage), and had also set up a nursery at Rosemoor. When Lady Anne gifted Rosemoor to the RHS in 1988 it consisted of the house, the 3.2ha (8 acre) garden around the house and 13ha (32 acres) of pastureland.
Rosemoor opened to visitors on 1 June 1990. Bisected by the A3124, the garden consists of two very distinct areas. On one side is the original garden – Lady Anne’s Garden – which remains a diverse collection of plants in an informal setting. On the other side is the new garden – a formal, decorative area in a glorious woodland setting – its creation in such a relatively brief time is a truly astonishing achievement.
https://www.rhs.org.uk/gardens/rosemoor
RHS Garden Rosemoor Great Torrington EX38 8PH
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