About the reserve

  Part of the 'Golden Triangle' this nature reserve forms part of the areas where, in the past, thousands of people would visit during the spring - traveling up from London on the train to pick the flowers to take back and sell.  By planting this new orchard we hope that as it matures the new habitat will provide homes for a number of nesting birds including green woodpecker, bullfinch, fieldfare, wren and song thrush, and insects such as the bumblebee, noble chafer, stag beetle (all of which are Biodiversity Action Plan priority species), and brimstone and peacock butterflies. It will provide an ideal setting for a range of plants to flourish, (cowslip, common dog-violet, meadow vetchling, barren strawberry and greater stitchwort), while enabling us to continue managing the site for wild daffodils.