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Nature Reserves

Visit one of the excellent Nature Reserves in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds

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Nature Reserves

The Oxfordshire Cotswolds is a very rural area set within the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, so it naturally has plenty of wonderful countryside and a good number of areas of Special Scientific Interest, as well as two excellent and very different nature reserves: Foxholes is a woodland famous for its spring bluebells, while Chimney Meadows is wetland meadows popular with bird watchers.

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All Saints Church in Shorthampton - photo courtesy of Oxfordshire Churches

Shorthampton - All Saints Church

The hamlet of Shorthampton consists of little more than a farm and the church. The church has an unusual, boxlike appearance: no tower or spire,...

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  1. The River Thames at Chimney Meadows

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    Chimney Meadows Nature Reserve

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    Nature Reserve

    Bampton


    Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust’s largest nature reserve, covering 250 ha of the Upper Thames floodplain. The reserve is of national importance for its species-rich wetland meadows that support large numbers of now scarce ground-nesting birds, and provides a haven for curlew, snipe and reed...

  2. Bluebells at Foxholes Nature Reserve

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    Foxholes Nature Reserve

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    Nature Reserve

    Bruern


    Foxholes is a tranquil woodland sloping down to the River Evenlode with year-round colour and wildlife interest but particularly noted for its springtime bluebells.

    Managed by Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust, this 66ha (165 acre) reserve has a 1.75 mile Wildlife Walk clearly marked with...

  3. Rushy Common and Tar Lakes

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    Rushy Common Nature Reserve

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    Nature Reserve

    Stanton Harcourt, Witney


    Rushy Common and neighbouring Tar Lakes is a 30 hectare site with three lakes, left after gravel extraction in the Lower Windrush Valley, that are being managed for the benefit of people and wildlife.

    Tar Lakes is an eight hectare area of open space for local people to enjoy, with a walk around...

  4. Wychwood Wild Garden

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    Wychwood Wild Garden

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    Parkland / Woodland Garden

    Shipton under Wychwood

    Wychwood Wild Garden is a beautiful woodland and garden, close to the centre of Shipton under Wychwood.

    Wychwood Wild Garden covers 12.5 acres of avenues, woods and ponds,much of which was laid out in the 1860s, and provides a haven for wildlife including many breeds of ducks and birds. It is...

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