Somerset Wildlife Trust

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Somerset Wildlife Trust
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Type	Registered Charity
Headquarters	Wellington, Somerset
Official languages	English
Parent organization	Wildlife Trusts partnership
Website	Somerset Wildlife Trust

Somerset Wildlife Trust is a wildlife trust covering the county of Somerset, England.

The trust aims to safeguard the county's wildlife and wild places for this and future generations and manages almost 80 nature reserves. Examples include Fyne Court, Westhay Moor, Long Wood and Langford Heathfield

The Somerset Wildlife Trust is part of the Wildlife Trusts partnership of 47 wildlife trusts in the United Kingdom

[edit] Nature Reserves

The Nature Reserves include: (* = Reserves designated as Sites of Scientific Interest}

Aller and Beer Woods* Aisholt Wood Babcary Meadows* Bickham Wood Bishopswood Meadows Black Rock Brim's Copse Brimley Hill Mire Bubworth Acres Burtle Moor Catcott, Edington and Chilton Moors* (4 reserves) Chancellor's Farm* Cheddar Wood* Cheddar Wood Edge Cockles Fields Combe Hollow Cook's Fields

Dommett Wood Draycott Sleights* Dundon Beacon Edford Woods and Meadows* Fivehead Arable Fields* Fyne Court GB Gruffy Gilling Down Great Breach and Copley Woods* Green Down Greylynch Harridge Wood Holford Kelting Hollow Marsh Meadow Horsehill Coppice Huish Moor Jan Hobbs King's Castle Wood

Kings Hill Gully Langford Heathfield* Long Wood Lynchcombe Mascall's Wood Middledown Mounsey Munty New Hill & Tannager Old Chard Canal Payton Marsh Perry Mead Priddy Mineries Prospect Fields Quants* Rewe Mead Ringdown Ruggin

Sharpham Moor Plot* South Hill Street Heath* Sutton's Pond Tealham Moor Thurlbear Wood Tor Hole Fields Ubley Warren Velvet Bottom Wellington Castle Fields West Coker Fen Westbury Quarry Westhay Heath* Westhay Moor* (National Nature Reserve) Withial Combe Yarley Fields Yarty Moor

[edit] See also

• List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset

[edit] External links

• Somerset Wildlife Trust website