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Warburton's Wood Nature Reserve

Warburton's Wood Nature Reserve
Warburton's Wood Nature Reserve is located in Cheshire
Warburton's Wood Nature Reserve
Warburton's Wood NR within Cheshire
TypeNature reserve and SSSI
LocationKingsley, Cheshire
OS gridSJ555762
Coordinates53°16′53″N 2°40′05″W / 53.2813°N 2.6681°W / 53.2813; -2.6681
Area3 hectares (7.4 acres)[1]
Elevation15 metres (49 ft)[2]
Operated byCheshire Wildlife Trust
Openany reasonable time

Warburton's Wood Nature Reserve is a nature reserve near Kingsley, Cheshire, England, managed by the Cheshire Wildlife Trust.[1]

The reserve consists of semi-natural woodland either side of a clough, or small valley, containing a tributary of the River Weaver. Together with Well Wood, a similar clough woodland to the east, it forms part of the Warburton's Wood and Well Wood Site of Special Scientific Interest, which covers a larger area of 8.1 hectares (20 acres).[3]

Trees include familiar species such as pedunculate oak (Quercus robur), ash (Fraxinus excelsior) and hazel (Corylus avellana), but also small-leaved lime (Tilia cordata) and wild service-tree (Sorbus torminalis), which are uncommon in Cheshire.[3]

The Wildlife Trust also owns the adjacent Hunter's Wood Nature Reserve, on which trees have been planted to act as a wildlife corridor, and with the hope that specialist plants from the ancient woodland will eventually colonise.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "Warburton's Wood". Cheshire Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 4 July 2013.
  2. ^ Northwich & Delamere Forest (Map). 1:25000. Explorer Series. Ordnance Survey. ISBN 978-0319235676.
  3. ^ a b "SSSI citation: Warburton's Wood and Well Wood" (PDF). English Nature. 1979. Retrieved 4 July 2013.
  4. ^ "Hunter's Wood". Cheshire Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 4 July 2013.


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