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The reserve is some 1800 yards long and is through ancient woodland. The woodland, Chedworth Woods, is one of the largest areas of such woodland in the Cotswolds. The reserve adjoins Chedworth Roman Villa, a National Trust site. [1] [4] Roman snail (Helix pomatia) in Chedworth Woods. The reserve terminates at the south end at the closed ...
Barnsley Warren (grid reference) is a 61.3-hectare (151-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 1954 and renotified in 1984. [1] The site is also included in A Nature Conservation Review. It lies in a steep-sided dry valley, east of the A429, northeast of Cirencester in the Cotswolds. [2]
The snail takes 30–40 days to hatch and is then considered young (before sexual maturity). Sexual maturity begins between 4 and 16 months after hatching. The snail is relatively fast moving at about 8 mm/s. [3] The snail has a light grey or brown body, with its lower tentacles being long and almost touching the ground.
Cotswold Wildlife Park has successfully bred one of the most endangered lemurs in Madagascar. The as-yet-unsexed and unnamed youngster was born to breeding male Raphael and female Bijou at ...
The Cotswold Wildlife Park Railway (CWP) is a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge [9] railway operating around the wildlife park. Journeys begin and end at Bradwell Grove Station, located on the edge of the woods between the owl aviaries and the Walled Garden, which is equipped with wooden platforms (one each for boarding and alighting passengers), two ...
Daneway Banks (grid reference) is a 17-hectare (42-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 1954 and renotified in 1983. It lies half a mile west of Sapperton and is part of a group of wildlife sites in the Frome Valley that includes Siccaridge Wood and Sapperton Canal reserves.
The Periwinkle Shelter, on the Medmerry reserve at Bracklesham Bay near Chichester, has been created out of metal covered with willow branches woven into the shape of a periwinkle - a sea snail.
Part of the site is owned and managed by Gloucestershire Willdlife Trust and the National Trust as a nature reserve Park. [1] [3] The Cotswold Way National Trail passes through Crickley Hill and Barrow Wake. [4] Barrow Wake and Tuffley's Quarry are listed in the 'Cotswold District' Local Plan 2001–2011 (on line) as Key Wildlife Sites. [5]