Salthill Quarry is designated a SSSI by virtue of its geological formations. It also has great botanical interest as it displays a mixture of vegetation from the earliest stages of soil development on limestone, from limestone grassland, which is rar...
This block of semi-natural woodland in the Moor Piece Nature Reserve is dominated by Birch, with a fringe of conifers along the northwestern boundary. To the north of Rabbit Lane the Birch has naturally self-seeded onto what was in the past an open a...
Cross Hill Quarry Nature Reserve is an abandoned as a working quarry in the early 1900's, Cross Hill is a good example of natural change on a man-made site and has since become an exceptional refuge for wildlife. Once quarrying ceased, the thin soils...