Thompson Common
A truly incredible and unique place. Thompson Common is famous for its ‘pingo’ ponds – a network of around 400 small pools created during the last Ice Age. It’s also home to the UK’s rarest…
A truly incredible and unique place. Thompson Common is famous for its ‘pingo’ ponds – a network of around 400 small pools created during the last Ice Age. It’s also home to the UK’s rarest…
A rich mosaic of habitats ranging from damp low-lying grassland studded with small pools to fen, scrub and woodland
One of our most familiar spring flowers, the cowslip brightens up ancient meadows and woodlands with its egg-yolk-yellow, nodding blooms.
A guided walk to see and learn about newly resurrected ice age pools, known as pingos
A quarry, worked until 1966, and surrounding woodland
Bucklebury Common is one of the largest commons in Berkshire and home to a rich variety of wildlife.
The fluffy, white heads of common cotton-grass dot our brown, boggy moors and heaths as if a giant bag of cotton wool balls has been thrown across the landscape!
Explore this historical common in Kenilworth with woodland walks
The largest remaining fragment of the once extensive heathlands of Scotton Common.
Carboniferous limestone quarry, plantation, scrub, and surrounding woodland. Geological SSSI (quarry face only).
A riverside common, grading into scrub and woodland along part of the route of an old tramway.