A Devon Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve
A top wildlife spot, with exceptional walks through woodland and alongside a classic Devon river. Feeling lucky? Otters are often seen at Halsdon!
https://www.devonwildlifetrust.org/nature-reserves/halsdon
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A Devon Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve
Meeth Quarry is unlike any other Devon Wildlife Trust nature reserve. Its industrial past has dramatically shaped its present. For nearly 100 years it was a series of busy clay quarries and mines. The legacy of this industry has created a very diverse landscape. Today, two enormous lakes and several massive piles of clay spoil dominate its features. Elsewhere there are ponds, woodland, bogs and grasslands. Together these make Meeth nature reserve a home for a diverse range of wildlife and a wonderful place for people to explore on foot, bike or horseback.
150 hectares of rolling landscape, deep water filled lakes and beautiful views
A series of colour-coded trails allows access on foot, bicycle, horseback or mobility scooter. The Quarry adjoins DWT's existing nature reserve at Ash Moor and is adjacent to the Tarka trail for those wishing to explore the area. A three-mile Meeth Quarry Wild Walk acts as great introduction to the area.
https://www.devonwildlifetrust.org/nature-reserves/meeth-quarry
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A Devon Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve
Lose yourself in a wide open landscape amid one of the rarest habitats in the world. A sense of space and timelessness greets the visitor stepping out on to the largest surviving area of culm grassland in Devon.
Culm grassland is a rare habitat comprising distinctive wetland plants, sustained by acidic clay soils, light grazing, and high rainfall. This combination of environmental conditions with low intensity land management, largely unchanged since prehistoric times, maintains the site's wildlife richness.
Unbroken views, as far as the edges of Dartmoor and Exmoor, reach across a diverse array of wet pastures, heaths, bogs and mires, scrub and fringes of woodland. This may lend an impression of vast ancient emptiness, but in the last century over 90% of culm grassland has been lost.
Much of what remains is to be found fragmented across north Devon. Rackenford and Knowstone moor is of crucial value as the most extensive remnant still in existence today. Devon Wildlife Trust works to protect, re-create and link together isolated culm grassland sites through the Working Wetlands and North Devon Nature Improvement Area projects.
https://www.devonwildlifetrust.org/nature-reserves/rackenford-and-knowstone-moors
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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
Thirteen fields of wildflower-rich Culm grassland make up this smallholding which has remained unchanged for decades.
About the reserve
Meshaw Moor is what many parts of mid and north Devon would have once looked, smelt, felt and sounded like.
It's patchwork of small irregular shaped fields are bounded by hedges. The fields themselves are classic Culm and flower-rich hay meadows. So rich is Meshaw's crop of summer flowers we often harvest its seed and use it to restore grasslands elsewhere.
https://www.devonwildlifetrust.org/nature-reserves/meshaw-moor
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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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