Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust Explained

The Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust, (part of the Wildlife Trusts partnership), 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 27,000 members and manages 95 nature reserves with a total area of 34.49km2. These include five main visitor-focused reserves used for educational purposes:

The Trust employs 78[5] full and part-time staff who are aided by more than 1,300 volunteers drawn mainly from Trust's 16 area groups (members' groups), each of which is based on one of the county's main towns. The area groups also organise meetings, visits and social events and are involved in fundraising and membership recruitment.

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 (usually for special projects), profits from the Trust's sales business and from legacies.[6]

Sites

Key

Public access

SiteImageAreaLocationPublic AccessClassificationsDescription
10ha52.9789°N -0.5359°WYesA 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.[7]
Anderby Marsh24ha53.2566°N 0.3221°W
Arnold's Meadow3ha52.779°N 0.1332°W
Banovallum House1ha53.2077°N 0.1193°W
Barrow Blow Wellsalign=center 3ha53.6842°N -0.3776°WYesLNRReedmarshes and woodland centred around two blow wells (natural artesian springs).[8]
Barrow Haven Reedbedalign=center 13ha53.6979°N -0.3972°WYesLNRReedbed in flooded, disused clay pits.
Baston Fenalign=center 33ha52.7439°N -0.3053°W
Bloxholm Wood30ha
Boston Road Bricks2ha
Boultham Mere19ha
Candlesby Hill Quarry2ha
Chapel Pit3ha
Clapgate Pits1haFormer quarry
Crowle Moor188ha
Dawson City Clay Pitsalign=center 16ha
Deeping Lakesalign=center 71ha52.6567°N -0.2506°WYesLNR, SSSIFlooded former gravel pits. Wildfowl and wetland site.
Digby Corner1ha
Dole Wood8ha
Donna Nook National Nature Reservealign=center 1150haYesNNRCoastal salt marsh noted for its annual grey seal breeding population.[9]
Duke's Covert and Copper Hill2ha
Epworth Turbary33ha
Fairfield Pit9ha
Far Ings National Nature Reservealign=center 59ha53.6968°N -0.46°WYesNNR, SSSI, Ramsar siteReedbeds on flooded former clay pits. Wildfowl and wetland site.
Fir Hill Quarry1ha
Fiskerton Fenalign=center 7ha
Frampton Marshalign=center 172ha52.9263°N 0.0266°W
Friskney Decoy Wood6ha
Furze Hill5ha
Gibraltar Point National Nature Reservealign=center 437ha53.0964°N 0.3284°WNNR
Goslings Corner Wood10ha
Great Casterton Road Banksalign=center 1ha52.663°N -0.514°W
Greetwell Hollow13ha
Hatton Meadows4ha
Haxey Turbary15ha
Heath's Meadows6ha
Hopland's Wood14ha
Horbling Line1ha
Huttoft Bank Pit4ha
Keal Carr12ha
Killingholme Haven Pits32ha
Kingerby Beck Meadows9ha
Kirkby Gravel Pits15ha
Kirkby Moor75ha
Landholme Wood11ha
Lawn Wood, and Bottleneck and Jackson's Meadows12ha
Legbourne Wood35ha
Linwood Warren28ha
Messingham Sand Quarry40ha
Mill Hill Quarry2ha
Moor Closes6ha
Moor Farm48ha
Moulton Marsh36ha
Muckton Wood17ha
Pasture Wharf21ha
Pickering's Meadow3ha
Pinchbeck Slipe22ha
Rauceby Warren9ha
Red Hill27ha
Rigsby Wood15ha
Robert's Field4ha
Roughton Moor Wood10ha
Rush Furlong3ha
Saltfleetby – Threddlethorpe Dunesalign=center 951ha53.4023°N 0.2064°WNNR
Sandilands Pit1ha
Scotton Common64ha
Sedge Hole Close1ha
Silverines Meadows6ha
Snipe Dalesalign=center 87ha53.196°N -0.005°W
Sotby Meadows6ha
South Witham Verges6ha
Sow Dale34ha
Spendluffe Meadows5ha
Stanton's Pitalign=center 8haLNR
Swinn Wood20haLNR
Surfleet Lows3ha
Tetney Blow Wells15ha
The Shrubberies5ha
Thurlby Fen Slipe8ha
Toby's Hill9ha
Toft Tunnel3ha
Tortoiseshell Wood and Porter's Lodge Meadows21ha
Tunman Wood53ha
Watts Wood3ha
Welton-le-Wold2ha
Whisby Nature Parkalign=center 144ha
Willoughby Branch Line5ha
Willoughby Meadow5ha
Willow Tree Fen112ha
Wolla Bank Pit4ha
Wolla Bank Reedbed3ha
Woodhall Spa Airfield Nature Reservealign=center 53.1307°N -0.1989°W BPANNRFormer airfield and gravel quarry.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Gibraltar Point NNR. Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust . 4 May 2020.
  2. Web site: Far Ings NNR . Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust . 4 May 2020.
  3. Web site: Whisby Nature Park. Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust . 4 May 2020.
  4. Web site: Snipe Dales . Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust . 7 October 2019.
  5. Web site: Meet the Team. Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust . 4 May 2020.
  6. Web site: LWT Annual Report 2018. 13. Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust . 4 May 2020.
  7. Web site: Ancaster Valley . Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust . 4 May 2020.
  8. Web site: Barrow Blow Wells . Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust . 2 July 2020.
  9. Web site: National Nature Reserves in Lincolnshire . 5 May 2020. Natural England.

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