Vincients Wood
Welcome to Vincients Wood Vincients Wood is a small area of semi-natural broadleaved woodland. The southern part first appeared on Ordnance Survey maps in 1828, but it is considered to be ancient woodland. The...
Wiltshire Guide
Smallbrook Meadows
Welcome to Smallbrook Meadows Smallbrook Meadows Nature Reserve consists of a number of disused water meadows that lie between the Rivers Were and Wylye, close to the town of Warminster. In Britain wetland habitat...
Blackmoor Copse: The Vaughan-Pickard Nature Reserve
Welcome to Blackmoor Copse Blackmoor Copse is a lovely area of woodland close to the county boundary with Hampshire. It is also one of the most important woods in Wiltshire for wildlife, with rare...
Ravensroost Wood
Welcome to Ravensroost Wood Owned and managed by Wiltshire Wildlife Trust, the wood was bought in 1987 with grants from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, English Nature and the Worldwide Fund for Nature. The...
EDINGTON PRIORY – A Fine Example of Perpendicular Architecture
Historical Wiltshire EDINGTON PRIORY – A Fine Example of Perpendicular Architecture Edington Priory In 1332 William of Edingon, Bishop of Winchester founded a college for priests in the village of Edington, Wiltshire. It later...
Roundway Hill Covert
Welcome to Roundway Hill Covert Roundway Hill Covert is a 68 acre broadleaf woodland, mostly of ash. Within the wood are sunny, grassy areas where chalk-loving plants grow and a wide variety of insects,...
Swillbrook Lakes
Welcome to Swillbrook Lakes Managed by the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust, this site is owned by The Hills Group which has shown a commitment to maintain the site for nature conservation. Swillbrook Lakes is a...
Shape up to save Wiltshire’s wildlife – walk the Sarsen Trail
Shape up to save Wiltshire’s wildlife – walk the Sarsen Trail After the eating and drinking marathon of Christmas, January sees most of us sighing over the bathroom scales. But this year, instead of...
Crop Circles
Wiltshire is famous for the many and intricate crop circle formations that magically appear! Or is there a more ordinary explanation? Crop circles are normally large and created by the flattening of the crop...
Wiltshire Mysteries What arouses your curiosity?
Is it … the enigma of the famous Wiltshire crop circles?, the claimed by some magical powers of the Avebury stones, the real purpose of Stonehenge?, ghostly appearances or the many UFO sightings across...
