Cheshire Wildlife Trust
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The Cheshire Wildlife Trust is a wildlife trust
covering the county of Cheshire
and parts of the counties of Greater Manchester
and Merseyside
, England. The trust manages 43 nature reserve
s totalling over 470 hectares, including:
The Wildlife Trusts partnership
The Wildlife Trusts is an organisation made up of 47 local Wildlife Trusts in the United Kingdom plus the Isle of Man and Alderney.The Wildlife Trusts, between them, look after around 2,300 nature reserves covering more than 90,000 hectares...
covering the county of Cheshire
Cheshire
Cheshire is a ceremonial county in North West England. Cheshire's county town is the city of Chester, although its largest town is Warrington. Other major towns include Widnes, Congleton, Crewe, Ellesmere Port, Runcorn, Macclesfield, Winsford, Northwich, and Wilmslow...
and parts of the counties of Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 2.6 million. It encompasses one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United Kingdom and comprises ten metropolitan boroughs: Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan, and the...
and Merseyside
Merseyside
Merseyside is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 1,365,900. It encompasses the metropolitan area centred on both banks of the lower reaches of the Mersey Estuary, and comprises five metropolitan boroughs: Knowsley, St Helens, Sefton, Wirral, and the city of Liverpool...
, England. The trust manages 43 nature reserve
Nature reserve
A nature reserve is a protected area of importance for wildlife, flora, fauna or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for conservation and to provide special opportunities for study or research...
s totalling over 470 hectares, including:
- Birch Moss Covert Nature ReserveBirch Moss Covert Nature ReserveBirch Moss Covert Nature Reserve is a nature reserve managed by the Cheshire Wildlife Trust. It is located on Carrington Moss, north of Sinderland Lane. which runs off the A56 road at Broadheath, Greater Manchester .-Description:...
- Black Firs Wood Nature ReserveBlack Firs Wood Nature ReserveBlack Firs Wood Nature Reserve is a nature reserve managed by the Cheshire Wildlife Trust. It is located at Black Firs Lane, Somerford, near Congleton, Cheshire, England, .-Description:...
- Black Lake Nature ReserveBlack Lake Nature ReserveBlack Lake Nature Reserve is a nature reserve in England managed by the Cheshire Wildlife Trust. It is located within Delamere Forest, to the south of the Chester to Manchester railway...
- Black Moss Covert Nature ReserveBlack Moss Covert Nature ReserveBlack Moss Covert Nature Reserve is a 2.1 hectare nature reserve in England managed by the Cheshire Wildlife Trust. It is a Site of Biological Importance and is located on Carrington Moss, two kilometres west of Altrincham town centre .-Description:...
- Brookheys Covert Nature ReserveBrookheys Covert Nature ReserveBrookheys Covert Nature Reserve is a nature reserve managed by the Cheshire Wildlife Trust.Brookheys covert is an ancient semi-natural woodland dominated by oaks, with frequent ash, birch and rowan. Canopy cover varies throughout the reserve, and is at its most dense to the centre of the wood,...
- Cleaver Heath Nature ReserveCleaver Heath Nature ReserveCleaver Heath Nature Reserve is a nature reserve in Heswall, on the Wirral Peninsula]], managed by the Cheshire Wildlife Trust.Overlooking the Dee estuary, the heathland features heather and bright yellow gorse in summer. A footpath runs lengthways through the reserve, to the east of which the...
- Cotterill Clough Nature ReserveCotterill Clough Nature ReserveCotterill Clough Nature Reserve is a nature reserve managed by the Cheshire Wildlife Trust.In Cheshire much of the remaining ancient woodland is in narrow, steep-sided valleys known as ‘cloughs’. Cotterill Clough is a superb example, and located to the west of Manchester Airport, this is one of our...
- Danes Moss Nature ReserveDanes Moss Nature ReserveDanes Moss Nature Reserve is a nature reserve managed by the Cheshire Wildlife Trust.Danes Moss near Macclesfield is an oasis of lowland raised bog, one of the scarcest and most threatened habitats in the UK. The open areas of the bog are covered with cotton grass, cross-leaved heath and at least...
- Dutton Park Nature ReserveDutton Park Nature ReserveDutton Park Nature Reserve is an 18 hectare nature reserve managed by the Cheshire Wildlife Trust.It lies below the Grade II listed Dutton viaduct and is looked after by the Cheshire Wildlife Trust in partnership with the Woodland Trust...
- Eastwood Nature ReserveEastwood Nature ReserveEastwood Nature Reserve is a nature reserve managed by the Cheshire Wildlife Trust .The reserve was gifted to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds by the Cheetham family in 1931 and became the first owned RSPB reserve who then leased it on to CWT...
- Gowy Meadows Nature ReserveGowy Meadows Nature ReserveGowy Meadows Nature Reserve is a nature reserve managed by the Cheshire Wildlife Trust.Lying in the rumbling shadow of Stanlow refinery, Gowy Meadows is one of the Trust’s newer reserves and is at the heart of our Living Landscape...
- Hatch Mere Nature ReserveHatch Mere Nature ReserveHatch Mere Nature Reserve is a nature reserve managed by the Cheshire Wildlife Trust.Hatch Mere is one of a series of lakes and peatlands across the North-West formed by the glacial action at the end of the last Ice Age, and part of the Northwest Midlands Meres and Mosses Ramsar site, a wetland...
- Hockenhull Platts Nature ReserveHockenhull Platts Nature ReserveHockenhull Platts Nature Reserve is located sits beside the River Gowy, near Chester, England. This nature reserve is managed by the Cheshire Wildlife Trust....
- Hunter's Wood Nature ReserveHunter's Wood Nature ReserveHunter's Wood Nature Reserve is a nature reserve managed by the Cheshire Wildlife Trust.Originally planted in 1999, Hunter’s Wood is a relatively new piece of woodland. When the Cheshire Wildlife Trust purchased the site it was still rough pasture; since then they have planted thousands of saplings...
- Limekiln Wood Nature ReserveLimekiln Wood Nature ReserveLimekiln Wood Nature Reserve is a nature reserve managed by the Cheshire Wildlife Trust.Standing on the north-west slope of the Mow Cop ridge, Limekiln Wood is part of a larger wood complex that has cloaked the ridge since the end of the last Ice Age...
- Marbury Reedbed Nature ReserveMarbury Reedbed Nature ReserveMarbury Reedbed Nature Reserve is a nature reserve managed by the Cheshire Wildlife Trust.Sitting within Marbury Country Park, the Trust looks after the 15 acre Marbury reedbed nature reserve on the western banks of Budworth Mere SSSI. Looking out from the bird hide in the country park across the...
- New Ferry Butterfly ParkNew Ferry Butterfly Park-About:New Ferry Butterfly Park is a nature reserve managed by the Cheshire Wildlife Trust.Situated next to Bebington railway station, Wirral, New Ferry Butterfly Park is an oasis of green tranquillity in densely populated urban area. Originally abandoned railway sidings, its industrial past has...
- Swettenham Meadows Nature Reserve
- Trentabank Reservoir Nature ReserveTrentabank Reservoir Nature ReserveTrentabank Reservoir Nature Reserve is a nature reserve managed by the Cheshire Wildlife Trust.On the doorstep of the Peak District, Trentabank Reservoir and the surrounding conifer plantations of Macclesfield Forest are owned by United Utilities and supply the town of Macclesfield with drinking...
- Warburton's Wood Nature ReserveWarburton's Wood Nature ReserveWarburton's Wood Nature Reserve is a nature reserve managed by the Cheshire Wildlife Trust.A classic English scene, Warburton’s wood is an ancient clough woodland with small meandering waterfalls from a tributary of the River Weaver. The umbrella of trees above you includes the mighty oak, ash,...