Glasbury Cutting
Glasbury Cutting Nature Reserve is closed to public access until further notice. This is due to the severity of the effects of ash dieback disease. Although we will be working to thin out the worst affected trees we do not have the resources or permission to thin out all the trees in a bad condition. Please stay away from the reserve while works are carried out. The situation will be re-assessed in the spring. If you have any enquiries please contact info@welshwildlife.org (put Glasbury Cutting as subject).
Location
Nearest town: Glasbury. Post code HR3 5NS.
OS Map Reference
SO 185 394.Know before you go
Dogs
When to visit
Opening times
Open access reserve.Best time to visit
All yearAbout the reserve
Nature has now taken over and the embankments have become wooded with trees such as silver birch, ash and hazel. The embankment at southwestern end is cleared of vegetation to provide a home for meadow plants such as cowslips, oxslips and primroses.
In 2000 dormice were discovered at Glasbury Cutting for the first time. You are unlikely to see this golden brown creature moving about in the tree canopy, as it is nocturnal. However, it does leave clues – when feeding on hazelnuts, it gnaws a very neat and distinctive circular hole in the nut.
Habitats:
Brownfield, Lowland Meadows, Lowland Mixed Deciduous Woodland, Ponds
Species:
Ash, Blue Tit, Bramble, Cock's foot, Common Shrew, Cowslip, Dormouse, False Oat-grass, Great Tit, Green-winged Orchid, Hazel, Knapweed, Oxeye Daisy, Primrose, Ribwort Plantain, Silver Birch, Wood Mouse.