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Welcome to the Waresley and Gransden
Woods website
This website is dedicated to providing
information on all topics relating to the Waresley and Gransden Woods reserves of
The Wildlife
Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.
For directions to visit the reserve follow this link.
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The Woods remain closed
until further notice
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04/02/2020 - as the sign above states, permissive access to both
Waresley and Gransden Woods Nature Reserve is temporarily withdrawn
due to excessive damage to the woodland rides and paths during this
wet and muddy time of year. Brownes' Pieces remains open.
As of 04/04/2020 this situation has not changed, the woods remain
closed. I have not visited the reserve for two weeks now,
given the restrictions placed on non essential car travelling. So I
have no recent photos of spring flowers or updates on the progress
of bluebell flowering. These treats will have to be savoured
another year. However on my last visit was quite fruitful in
the number of flowers on display, so I've extended this page's
format to share them all. Stay safe and take care - Graham.
22/03/2020 - one of
several single bluebells, just about to flower.
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22/03/2020 - blackthorn blossom on the wood edge, nicely back lit by
the sun.
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22/03/2020 -lesser celandines, a frequent companion to.....
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22/03/2020 -wood anemones, beginning to appear in numbers.
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22/03/2020 -barren strawberry, can be found along the woodland edge's
South path.
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22/03/2020 -willow blossom on the tree at the top of Brownes' Pieces.
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08/03/2020 -one of favourites, primroses, such a delicate colour.
Sometimes difficult to capture when in direct sunshine.
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08/03/2020 -and finally an early example of one of the regions rarities,
the oxlip.
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Conservation
work parties will now restart in September
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Last Update
08/02/2020
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The view above from before storm
Dennis shows our last visit's conservation
work in the main ride's coppice section. All hazel in the two
scallops has been cut. Layering and cutting back overhanging
boughs are the next jobs, weather permitting. Click here
to see our progress so far.
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