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Hidden away in a shallow valley in the heart of Oswaldtwistle, Foxhill Bank Nature Reserve is historically linked to local industry as well as providing an excellent urban site for wildlife. The value of this reserve is its mixture of habitats in suc...
Croston Marsh contains one of the best examples of reedbed in this part of Lancashire. In an area where agriculture has so severely modified the landscape, this reserve is a pocket of semi-natural vegetation tucked away between the railway and the...
Cop Lane Nature Reserve was once part of a railway-line from Preston to Southport. It contains a wealth of wild flowers, which provide a colourful display in spring and summer. The Cop Lane Nature Reserve consists of a steep bank with a level area...
Dean Wood is an impressive site. This deep, narrow, wooded clough is typical of those found on the West Pennine Moors. The lack of undisturbed wooded valleys in the local area and the relatively unspoilt nature of Dean Wood means it is a special have...
Mere Sands Wood Nature Reserve is a wildlife-rich haven in the heart of agricultural west Lancashire. The reserve covers 42 hectares (105 acres) and is made up of lakes, mature broadleaved and conifer woodland, sandy, wet meadows and heaths. The m...
At Aughton Woods you can enjoy the peace and solitude of a wood in a remote location. Spring is a colourful time to visit when the Bluebells form a carpet across the woodland floor. The ancient semi-natural woodland has retained at least 30 examples ...
Leighton Moss Nature Reserve is the largest reedbed in north-west England, and home to some really special birds such as breeding bitterns, bearded tits and marsh harriers. At Leighton Moss Nature Reserve you might even see deer too, not to mentio...
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...
Upper Coldwell Reservoir enjoys a more remote, exposed situation than any other of the Trust's reserves. Upper Coldwell Reservoir is located on the edge of the South Pennines, which are designated as a Special Protection Area and candidate Special...
Pleasington Old Hall Wood is a narrow strip of mixed woodland through which a stream runs from north to south. To the north there is a Victorian walled garden which has been converted into a wildlife garden. The woodland has a healthy structure o...
Sawley Abbey are now the remains of a Cistercian abbey founded in 1148, set on the banks of the Ribble against a backdrop of dramatic hills. After Sawley Abbey's dissolution in 1536, the monks were briefly returned to the abbey during the Pilgrima...
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...
Buzzing with wildlife, Fleetwood Marsh Nature Reserve is one of the Trust's smallest reserves. The length of disused railway track has been vegetated by a good stand of Common Reed. Further on there is a section of reedmace merging into drier land wi...
Warton Crag Nature Reserve is as exciting to explore as it is to look at from a distance; but be careful, visitors have been known to get lost in the woods! Warton Crag Nature Reserve is home to an outstanding collection of butterflies as well as ...
Heysham Moss Nature Reserve consists of a variety of habitats including areas of woodland and scrub, wet grassland and most importantly the central area of raised bog. The Reserve is the second best example of a cut-over raised bog in the county ...
Over Kellet Pond Nature Reserve is bounded by housing, limestone pasture and a busy footpath to the village school. Although small, this is a "five species" amphibian pond, containing Common Frog, Common Toad, Smooth Newt, Palmate Newt and Great Cres...
Disused railway lines often provide excellent 'corridors' for wildlife and Haskayne Cutting is no exception.
A surprising diversity of habitats has developed since the line was closed in 1952. Seasonal open water, marsh, acid and calcareous grass...
Heysham Nature Reserve consists of a wide variety of habitats including open water, reedbed, marsh, Gorse and Hawthorn scrub, acid and neutral grasslands, heath and tree and shrub plantations.
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The reserve occupies an area not much bigger than a football pitch. The site is an example of a 'Schwingmoor', a floating raft of Sphagnum mosses in a basin mire, a nationally rare habitat. Lord's Lot Bog has always been an area of wetland but it is ...
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