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Draycote Meadows
Picturesque traditional hay meadows and wildflowers
Tasker’s Meadow by Ruth Deborah Patton née Tasker
Thanks to Ruth for this lovely poem celebrating Tasker's Meadow and in memory of her cousin, Andy Tasker, our former CEO.
Northern hay meadow
These beautiful, herb-rich meadows are at their best between late-May and mid-July (after which they are cut for hay, weather permitting). Later, after the haycut, pale fields with geometric…
Upland birch wood
Elegant, airy woodlands of silver-barked birches found across the northern uplands. Often transient in feel, with scattered trees growing over the heathy field layer of the surrounding moorland,…
Farmland habitats and their management
Upland calcareous grassland
Limited in distribution, this sweetly-scented, short-cropped, springy grassland is famed for its abundance of rare and scarce species.
Upland spring, flush and fen
These tiny habitats, the source of our streams and rivers, are fundamental to the well-being of whole water catchments.
Radway Meadows
Species-rich meadows in a magnificent setting
Upland acid grassland and rush pasture
These grasslands, occupying much of the UK's heavily-grazed upland landscape, are of greater cultural than wildlife interest, but remain a habitat to some scarce and declining species.
Shadowbrook Meadows
Rich, old, traditional meadows with a stream running through it.
Alvecote Meadows
Wetland and meadows within the floodplain of the River Anker with a wide range of butterflies and dragonflies