Warburton's Wood Nature Reserve
Warburton's Wood Nature Reserve is located in Cheshire
Warburton's Wood Nature Reserve
Warburton's Wood NR within Cheshire
TypeNature reserve and SSSI
LocationKingsley, Cheshire
OS gridSJ555762
Coordinates53°16′53″N 2°40′05″W / 53.2813°N 2.6681°W / 53.2813; -2.6681
Area3 hectares (7.4 acres)[1]
Elevation15 metres (49 ft)[2]
Operated byCheshire Wildlife Trust
Openany reasonable time

Warburton's Wood Nature Reserve is a nature reserve near Kingsley, Cheshire, England, managed by the Cheshire Wildlife Trust.[1]

The reserve consists of semi-natural woodland either side of a clough, or small valley, containing a tributary of the River Weaver. Together with Well Wood, a similar clough woodland to the east, it forms part of the Warburton's Wood and Well Wood Site of Special Scientific Interest, which covers a larger area of 8.1 hectares (20 acres).[3]

Trees include familiar species such as pedunculate oak (Quercus robur), ash (Fraxinus excelsior) and hazel (Corylus avellana), but also small-leaved lime (Tilia cordata) and wild service-tree (Sorbus torminalis), which are uncommon in Cheshire.[3]

The Wildlife Trust also owns the adjacent Hunter's Wood Nature Reserve, on which trees have been planted to act as a wildlife corridor, and with the hope that specialist plants from the ancient woodland will eventually colonise.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Warburton's Wood". Cheshire Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 4 July 2013.
  2. ↑ Northwich & Delamere Forest (Map). 1:25000. Explorer Series. Ordnance Survey. ISBN 978-0319235676.
  3. 1 2 "SSSI citation: Warburton's Wood and Well Wood" (PDF). English Nature. 1979. Retrieved 4 July 2013.
  4. ↑ "Hunter's Wood". Cheshire Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 4 July 2013.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.