Briddlesford Parkland Nature Reserve - Isle Of Wight
Wildlife highlightsThe Reserve is managed to maintain and improve its value for wildlife and, in particular, for the nationally and internationally important populations of mammals it supports. These include both red squirrels and dormice, which are widespread on the Island but both are severely threatened nationally. There are now very few places in the UK where you can find these two species in the same woodland. Briddlesford is also home to some very rare woodland bats, particularly barbastelle and Bechstein’s bats that are threatened throughout Europe. Where the trees are able to spread and grow old, they support a number of specialist plants and animals, in particular those that depend upon dead and decaying wood or those that require tree holes and crevices in which to breed or shelter, including bats, woodpeckers and owls. | How to find Briddlesford ParklandThe parkland is easily reached from Wootton Bridge. If you stand on the bridge itself facing the woodland, and look across the road, to your right you will see a bridleway joining the main road by a large London Plane tree. Walk up the bridleway, through the gates and past the woodland cemetery on your right. The entrance to the Parkland is on your right after approximately 200 metres. The Parkland is being created from several large fields that the People’s Trust for Endangered Species bought in 2001 with the help of donations from its supporters and a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. It is part of a larger Nature Reserve that was set up by the Trust in the early 1990s. |
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