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40 acres of wet grassland and ditches on the River Severn floodplain managed by the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust. The scrapes attract wildfowl and waders. Some of the area is designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

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This is the Worcestershire Wildlife Trusts largest woodland reserve and it contains a great variety of trees and shrubs. Its a good wood for bluebell, wood anemone and other flowers (the coppicing encourages these). Butterflies too are here in numbers and dragonflies haunt the rides.

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The reserve is open to everyone. At any time please feel free to enjoy a walk through the hay meadow, wildflower areas and the woodlands.

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In the meadows between Bourton-on-the-Water and Wyck Rissington is Greystone Farm Nature Reserve. The area is marked on the OS map as Salmonsbury Meadows Nature Reserve and is an SSSI.

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Two-hundred and fifty acres of open countryside with viewpoint, pleasant walks, waymarked nature trails and a visitor centre.

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Highnam Woods is 119 hectares of ancient woodland and coppice and forms the largest area of woodland in the Severn Vale.There is a rich assemblage of woodland birds that includes breeding nightingales.

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A network of footpaths is open to the public, as are the hides at Kemerton Lake. Please keep to footpaths and keep dogs under control while visiting the estate so as not to disturb the wildlife.

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Beautiful woodland nature reserve. Dowdeswell Wood lies on the northern slopes of the Chelt valley and forms the gathering grounds for Dowdeswell Reservoir. There are small areas of semi-natural woodland, the rest being planted conifers.

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The reserve became a nature reserve in 1974 and in 1984 the land was purchased by Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust.

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The Ham lies in the flood plain of the River Severn and is a remnant of much wider areas of old meadowland, now destroyed by drainage and ploughing. The reserve is renowned for its wintering wildfowl.