Garbutt Wood Nature Reserve
If you’ve ever marvelled at the stunning view from Sutton Bank, you’ll have seen Lake Gormire below, and an enticing wood that’s crying out to be explored. That’s Garbutt Wood.
We look after over 100 nature reserves across Yorkshire which are usually open all year. Discover one near you!
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If you’ve ever marvelled at the stunning view from Sutton Bank, you’ll have seen Lake Gormire below, and an enticing wood that’s crying out to be explored. That’s Garbutt Wood.
Discover delightful Grass Wood, a woodland full of character and wildlife in beautiful Wharfedale.
A wild woodland wonderland where childhood memories are made, with activities and adventures to enjoy all year round, wildlife and wildflowers to discover – and a weird plant.
This reserve’s woodland and grassland habitats are home to a wonderful array of plants, which grow in the undulating ‘ridge and furrows’ created by medieval farmers using oxen-pulled ploughs.
This nature reserve has been created to compensate for habitat being lost nearby on the eroding Holderness coastline.
If you’re out walking in the Lower Aire Valley, pay a visit to Kippax Meadows, an accessible reserve with great potential and already home to a number of uncommon plants.
As you stroll through the orchard, woods and grassland of peaceful Kirkstall Valley, you’ll completely forget that you’re close to the urban heart of one of the UK’s biggest cities.
When hundreds of orchids are in bloom, the birds are singing, and the ponds are alive with dragonflies and damselflies, it’s a far cry from Ledston Luck’s industrial past.
Mining bees now use the exposed coal bank of this former colliery, bee orchids bloom in the meadow, and the lagoons are a magnet for dragonflies!
In a sheltered, secluded valley in the North York Moors lies lovely Little Beck Wood, close to the beauty spot of the Falling Foss waterfall and home to a wealth of wildlife.
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