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Ways into wildlife
  Nature reserve
  discover a nature reserve near you

Avon Wildlife Trust looks after 35 nature reserves in the local area - from bluebell woods to butterfly-filled meadows, from grassy hill forts to shimmering waterland. By managing land with wildlife in mind, we’ve encouraged small blue butterflies to breed at Bathampton Oxbow and raised water levels for bird populations on the North Somerset Levels.

Green spaces are good for you

Climb the steep slopes of Goblin Combe, stride out across the Clapton Circuit, and raise your spirits with the skylarks on Puxton Moor. Work out with the Wildlife Action Group with a spot of scrub-bashing or step-building.

It’s a fact, the great green outdoors counteracts the stresses and strains of modern life - it’s healthy and it’s free! Download a detailed walk for each site from the selection below or download the full Top 10 Reserves Guide (PDF format).

  Top 10 reserves

Browns Folly

Browns Folly

Clapton Moor

Clapton Moor

Dolebury

Dolebury Warren

     

Folly Farm

Folly Farm

Goblin Combe

Goblin Combe

Lower Woods

Lower Woods

     

Priors Wood

Priors Wood

Walborough - Purn Hill

Walborough/Purn Hill

Weston Big Wood

Weston Big Wood

     

Willsbridge

Willsbridge Valley

For further information on these reserves select from the list below or find more reserves on our online map

 
     

Share the experience

Email us with your species sightings and photos - mail@avonwildlifetrust.org.uk

 

photos: Lower Woods - Mike Martin

 

 
A word from...

Simon King, Avon Wildlife Trust President

Simon King
 

“I care passionately about wildlife and the fate of our wonderful and precious natural heritage, and so the work of the Trust is of great significance to me. I also love this region. Bristol and Bath are among the greenest and most wildlife-friendly cities in the world, and the more people realise just what they have on their doorsteps, the more they will care about what happens to it.”

  Virtual tour
Virtual tour

A new series of interactive guides to walks in and around our nature reserves.

Clapton Circuit

Weston Big Wood

 

  Wildlife walks
view of estuary

At around 24700ha, it is one of the largest estuaries in Britain and has the second largest tidal range in the world. For further details go to the Walks and wildlife of the Severn Estuary