A Devon Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve
A patchwork of woodland and Culm grassland fields linked by traditional Devon hedge banks.
https://www.devonwildlifetrust.org/nature-reserves/veilstone-moor
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A Devon Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve
A Culm grassland, rich in nationally rare plant and insect species.
https://www.devonwildlifetrust.org/nature-reserves/stapleton-mire
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A Devon Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve
Thirteen fields of wildflower-rich Culm grassland make up this smallholding which has remained unchanged for decades.
About the reserve
Meshaw Moor is what many parts of mid and north Devon would have once looked, smelt, felt and sounded like.
It's patchwork of small irregular shaped fields are bounded by hedges. The fields themselves are classic Culm and flower-rich hay meadows. So rich is Meshaw's crop of summer flowers we often harvest its seed and use it to restore grasslands elsewhere.
https://www.devonwildlifetrust.org/nature-reserves/meshaw-moor
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A Devon Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve
One of the best remaining areas of Culm grassland in Devon.
https://www.devonwildlifetrust.org/nature-reserves/meresfelle
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A Devon Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve
Exceptional grasslands with areas of 'smooth Culm'.
https://www.devonwildlifetrust.org/nature-reserves/mambury-moor
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A Devon Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve
A classic introduction to one of Devon's best remaining Culm grasslands.
https://www.devonwildlifetrust.org/nature-reserves/dunsdon
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The rolling ridges and plateaux of the Culm extend across north-west Devon and north-east Cornwall, reaching from the foot of Dartmoor in the southwest and the edge of the Cornish Killas in the west, to the spectacular Atlantic coast of cliffs and sandy beaches in the north. North-eastwards they meet the Exmoor landscape and stand high above the Devon Redlands. The open, often treeless, ridges are separated by an intricate pattern of small valleys forming the catchments of the Rivers Taw, Torridge and Mole. This is largely a remote and sparsely populated landscape.
http://publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/4292167?category=587130
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This distinctive type of damp pasture is generally found on commons, as a component of lowland fen, or in undeveloped corners of otherwise intensively farmed landscapes.
What is it? This moist, often tussocky (long and thick) grassland is found on flat or gently sloping land on peaty mineral soils in areas with higher rainfall (i.e. the west of the country), or on wetter peatlands in East Anglia. A variety of flowers such as meadow buttercup, devil’s-bit scabious, meadow thistle, ragged-Robin, water mint and self-heal are found with purple moor-grass and sharp-flowered rush. Where the soil is particularly low in nutrients, the vegetation becomes more heathy, with cross-leaved heath and tormentil. Scrub is common and the pasture is often bordered by hedgerows.
https://www.devonwildlifetrust.org/habitats/grassland/purple-moor-grass-and-rush-pasture
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Orchard Link Lower Sharpham Barton Community Orchard is an historic orchard in two plots (old and new). Shown on historic maps dating from 1880, the old orchard has consistently had trees growing there for over 100 years. The new plot has 50 trees and guards which were planted between 2013-15.
Some volunteers include adults with learning difficulties from the Robert Owen Community as well as international students from Ambios Ltd, who are the farm tenants on the Sharpham Estate.
https://www.orchardlink.org.uk/orchard_sites/lower-sharpham-barton-community-orchard-ashprington/
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Read more: Lower Sharpham Barton Community Orchard, Ashprington
A Devon Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve
An ancient woodland to explore, with added panorama of the North Devon landscape.
About the reserve
There's much to see both within and looking out from the reserve. Take a path under mature oaks, ashes and hazel coppice to discover glades of spring woodland flowers, while the level hilltop location, just a few miles south of Barnstaple, gives wide views of the surrounding countryside.
https://www.devonwildlifetrust.org/nature-reserves/uppacott-wood
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