Melrose Farm Meadows

Melrose Farm Meadows

Melrose Farm Meadows CREDIT Steve Bloomfield

Melrose Farm Meadows

2ha
Dog on a lead
Volunteer Group
A small nature reserve consisting of an old orchard and two meadows.

Location

Nr Brotheridge Green
Upton upon Severn
Worcestershire
WR8 0AU
A static map of Melrose Farm Meadows

Know before you go

Size
2 hectares
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Parking information

Park on roadside by Brotheridge Green old railway nature reserve (take footpath to south from bridge).

Grazing animals

Cattle and sheep

Access

Access is restricted to public footpath only. Muddy and slippery underfoot when wet.

Dogs

On a lead

When to visit

Opening times

Dawn to dusk.

Best time to visit

April to July

About the reserve

About 130 plant species have been recorded on this particularly important example of an old Worcestershire meadow.  These include meadow saffron, green-winged orchid, adder’s-tongue fern, dyer’s greenweed, cowslip and saw-wort.   Due to the fragile nature of the reserve, access is restricted to the public footpath.  

Bigger, better and more joined up

This is one of a number of grasslands and one orchard in the area - we believe that a landscape-scale approach to wildlife conservation is essential. Wildlife needs space to adapt and move to cope with the consequences of climate change. Practically, this means that we need our countryside to be bigger, better and more joined up to provide a coherent network of large areas linked by corridors that can provide benefits for people as well as for biodiversity.

In a pastoral landscape these scattered sites demonstrate how important each sensitively managed piece of land has become and we demonstrate their importance of protecting the existing wildlife value to encourage other landowners to manage their land and hedgerows less intensively. These small reserves lie within Natural England’s Severn and Avon Vales Landscape Area, and within the Worcestershire Wildlife Trust’s Malvern Chase Living Landscape.

Contact us

Tomos Holloway
Contact number: 01905 754919

Environmental designation

Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI)

Location map

Backlit meadow brown butterfly on a grass head in a field with long grasses by Carl Harris

Meadow brown by Carl Harris

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