Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust
The Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust,, covers the whole ceremonial county of Lincolnshire, England. It was founded in 1948 as a voluntary charitable organisation dedicated to conserving the wildlife and wild places of Lincolnshire and to promoting the understanding and enjoyment of the natural world.
Description
Its headquarters are at Banovallum House, Manor House Street, Horncastle. It has over 25,000 members and manages 95 nature reserves with a total area of. These include five main visitor-focused reserves used for educational purposes:- Gibraltar Point National Nature Reserve opened in 1949 and was the first nature reserve to be purchased by the Trust. A reserve of sand dunes, salt marsh and brackish pools situated on the coast south of Skegness. Facilities include two car parks and a visitors' centre with a cafe, shop and toilets.
- Far Ings National Nature Reserve opened in 1973. A reserve of lakes, reedbeds and meadows situated in the north of the county on the south bank of the Humber Estuary west of Barton upon Humber. Facilities provided include car parking, toilets, shop and classroom.
- Whisby Nature Park opened in 1989. A reserve of lakes, meadows and immature woodland situated in the west of the county alongside the A46 Lincoln by-pass. Facilities include car parking, an education centre with a laboratory and a classroom, an adventure playground for children and the 'Natural World Centre' with toilets, café, shop and temporary and permanent exhibitions..
- Snipe Dales Country Park & Nature Reserve opened in 1974. A reserve that is part wet grassland and scrub and part conifer woodland situated in the centre of the county on the B1195 Horncastle to Spilsby road. The coniferous woodland is currently being replaced by native broadleaved trees. Facilities include car parking and toilets.
- Deeping Lakes Nature Reserve opened in 2004. A reserve of lakes and immature woodland situated in the south of the county on the north bank of the River Welland, it is east of Deeping St James on the B1166 road. Only car parking is provided while the site is being developed.
5,000 of the Trust's members are under 16 years of age; these are catered for by the organisation's junior wing Wildlife Watch which runs seven groups around the county organising events for children.
The Trust's income is derived mainly from members' subscriptions, money raised by area groups and members, donations, grants from local authorities and government agencies, profits from the Trust's sales business and from legacies.
Sites
Key
Public access
- BPA = access only by prior arrangement with the Trust
- No = no public access
- Yes = public access to all or most of the site
| Site | Image | Area | Location | Public Access | Classifications | Description |
| Ancaster Valley | Yes | A steep-sided valley best known for its flower-rich limestone grassland. Plants include pasqueflower, bee orchid, dyer's greenweed and dropwort, whilst birds recorded at the site include Eurasian green woodpecker and great spotted woodpecker. | ||||
| Anderby Marsh | ||||||
| Arnold's Meadow | ||||||
| Banovallum House | ||||||
| Barrow Blow Wells | Yes | LNR | Reedmarshes and woodland centred around two blow wells. | |||
| Barrow Haven Reedbed | Yes | LNR | Reedbed in flooded, disused clay pits. | |||
| Baston Fen | ||||||
| Bloxholm Wood | ||||||
| Boston Road Bricks | ||||||
| Boultham Mere | ||||||
| Candlesby Hill Quarry | ||||||
| Chapel Pit | ||||||
| Clapgate Pits | Former quarry | |||||
| Crowle Moor | ||||||
| Dawson City Clay Pits | ||||||
| Deeping Lakes | Yes | LNR, SSSI | Flooded former gravel pits. Wildfowl and wetland site. | |||
| Digby Corner | ||||||
| Dole Wood | ||||||
| Donna Nook National Nature Reserve | Yes | NNR | Coastal salt marsh noted for its annual grey seal breeding population. | |||
| Duke's Covert and Copper Hill | ||||||
| Epworth Turbary | ||||||
| Fairfield Pit | ||||||
| Far Ings National Nature Reserve | Yes | NNR, SSSI, Ramsar site | Reedbeds on flooded former clay pits. Wildfowl and wetland site. | |||
| Fir Hill Quarry | ||||||
| Fiskerton Fen | ||||||
| Frampton Marsh | ||||||
| Friskney Decoy Wood | ||||||
| Furze Hill | ||||||
| Gibraltar Point National Nature Reserve | NNR | |||||
| Goslings Corner Wood | ||||||
| Great Casterton Road Banks | ||||||
| Greetwell Hollow | ||||||
| Hatton Meadows | ||||||
| Haxey Turbary | ||||||
| Heath's Meadows | ||||||
| Hopland's Wood | ||||||
| Horbling Line | ||||||
| Huttoft Bank Pit | ||||||
| Keal Carr | ||||||
| Killingholme Haven Pits | ||||||
| Kingerby Beck Meadows | ||||||
| Kirkby Gravel Pits | ||||||
| Kirkby Moor | ||||||
| Landholme Wood | ||||||
| Lawn Wood, and Bottleneck and Jackson's Meadows | ||||||
| Legbourne Wood | ||||||
| Linwood Warren | ||||||
| Messingham Sand Quarry | ||||||
| Mill Hill Quarry | ||||||
| Moor Closes | ||||||
| Moor Farm | ||||||
| Moulton Marsh | ||||||
| Muckton Wood | ||||||
| Pasture Wharf | ||||||
| Pickering's Meadow | ||||||
| Pinchbeck Slipe | ||||||
| Rauceby Warren | ||||||
| Red Hill | ||||||
| Rigsby Wood | ||||||
| Robert's Field | ||||||
| Roughton Moor Wood | ||||||
| Rush Furlong | ||||||
| Saltfleetby – Threddlethorpe Dunes | NNR | |||||
| Sandilands Pit | ||||||
| Scotton Common | ||||||
| Sedge Hole Close | ||||||
| Silverines Meadows | ||||||
| Snipe Dales | ||||||
| Sotby Meadows | ||||||
| South Witham Verges | ||||||
| Sow Dale | ||||||
| Spendluffe Meadows | ||||||
| Stanton's Pit | LNR | |||||
| Swinn Wood | LNR | |||||
| Surfleet Lows | ||||||
| Tetney Blow Wells | ||||||
| The Shrubberies | ||||||
| Thurlby Fen Slipe | ||||||
| Toby's Hill | ||||||
| Toft Tunnel | ||||||
| Tortoiseshell Wood and Porter's Lodge Meadows | ||||||
| Tunman Wood | ||||||
| Watts Wood | ||||||
| Welton-le-Wold | ||||||
| Whisby Nature Park | ||||||
| Willoughby Branch Line | ||||||
| Willoughby Meadow | ||||||
| Willow Tree Fen | ||||||
| Wolla Bank Pit | ||||||
| Wolla Bank Reedbed | ||||||
| Woodhall Spa Airfield Nature Reserve | BPA | NNR |