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Clunton Coppice
This is an all season wood, wonderful at any time with ferns, mosses, woodpeckers and fungi. Especially lovely in spring when it is ringing with birdsong including wood warblers and pied flycatcher....

Eardington Nature Reserve
Eardington Nature Reserve is a 12 hectare former sand and gravel quarry most recently quarried by Lafarge Tarmac. Quarrying ceased in the mid-1990s. Following the quarry, the site was used as a ready-mixed concrete plant until 2010 when the site was finally closed....

Earl's Hill
The distinctive, humped hill roared forth from a volcano some 650 million years ago. An Iron Age hill fort was built on its lofty summit around 600 BC and in 1964 it became the Shropshire Wildlife Trust’s very first nature reserve....

Fenn's, Whixall & Bettisfield Mosses NNR
The reserve has 18 species of bog moss, as well as many other characteristic bog plants, such as the insect-eating round-leaved sundew, and more uncommon plants. Hobby, nightjar and wintering raptors..

Venus Pool Nature Reserve
Originally a large pool in a field, probably formed when the railway embankment on the north side was built and impeded natural drainage. The land to the east was eventually quarried for the sand and gravel deposits ...

Wood Lane Nature Reserve
Wood Lane is the Tudor Griffiths Group sand and gravel extraction site near Ellesmere, Shropshire. The worked out parts of the quarry provide an exciting opportunity to enhance the whole area in terms of nature conservation and provision of various wildlife habitats...

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