Enter Sladden Wood for a peaceful escape and fantastic walk through the wood and hills of the Alkham Valley.

One of the suite of 9 Irvine Greenspaces managed to provide local people with access to wildlife in the vicinity of their home or workplace

Ancient Woodland with large areas undergoing restoration from more modern commercial forestry.

This reserve is home to thousands of wildfowl and waders in winter, and some very special plants in summer.

A narrow strip of land with two dominant features: wooded cliffs and saltmarsh

Part of the largest area of coastal shingle in Scotland

These fragile woods support a diverse mixture of species from mighty oaks and majestic beech to violets and carpets of bluebells. The extremely rare greater butterfly orchids and delicate lady…

A fragment of blanket bog remaining from a larger area of bog, marsh and shallow pools now partly drained and/or planted with conifers

A 17ha mixed deciduous woodland

An ancient woodland site.

Ancient broadleaved woodlands, calcareous grasslands, river, and cliffs

A raised peat bog, supporting plants such as heather, sphagnum moss and cottongrass

The largest remainig area of alder wood in the eastern part of Easter Ross

Part of the disused Newtyle to Dundee railway, now supporting a thriving grassland community

A steep, narrow gorge with broadleaved woodland

Rosa Shafto and Tudhoe Mill are two adjacent woodland nature reserves linked by a footbridge over the Valley Burn. They consist of mixed secondary woodland developed on an ancient woodland site.…

A reserve with one of the rarest habitats in the UK; freshwater shingle

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One of 12 semi-natural woodland SSSIs within the Clyde Valley woodlands SAC

An ancient semi-natural woodland with oak, Scots pine, beech, Norway spruce and larch