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From days out with the family to nature reserves and walks near you we've got lots of ideas for places to visit.
Nature Reserve

Great Fen

This link will open on the WildlifeBCN website.

The Great Fen is a landscape project to connect the two national nature reserves of Woodwalton Fen and Holme Fen by restoring the surrounding land for wildlife.

Nature Reserve

Sweeney Fen

This link will open on the Shropshire Wildlife Trust website.

This tiny fen is one of the most exquisite flower meadows in Shropshire

Species

Fen violet

A pale member of the violet family sometimes known as ‘milk violet’, the fen violet has a delicate and unassuming appearance. A real specialist of the wetland habitat, this species has seen a…

Nature Reserve

Baston Fen

This link will open on the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust website.

Baston fen is a long tract of permanent pasture, which is flooded in winter and attracts large numbers of wildfowl.

Nature Reserve

Llangloffan Fen

This link will open on the South and West Wales website.

The reserve comprises the western end of one of the largest remaining floodplains or valley mires in Wales, supporting tall fen, fen meadow, wet heath and carr communities and associated species.…

Nature Reserve

Scarning Fen

This link will open on the Norfolk Wildlife Trust website.

It may be small but Scarning Fen is home a to large number of rare plants and insects. This precious site is sensitive to disturbance, so please tread carefully.

Nature Reserve

Bishop's Fen

This link will open on the Durham Wildlife Trust website.

Bishop’s Fen is a 20ha farmland site about 2km south of Bishop Middleham, County Durham. Lying on the floodplain of the River Skerne and is part of the ambitious Great North Fen vision. Durham…

Nature Reserve

Red Jacket Fen

This link will open on the South and West Wales Wildlife Trust website.

A lowland fen situated in a narrow valley between Pant y sais fen and the Neath Estuary

Habitat

Lowland fen

Water-logged and thick with reeds and robust tall-herbs or tussocky sedges, fens are evocative reminders of the extensive wet wildlands that once covered far more of the lowlands than they do…

Event

Visit to Helman Tor

This link will open on the Cornwall Wildlife Trust website.

An event at Helman Tor nature reserve to explore the reserve and how gifts in Wills help nature thrive in Cornwall.