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Willenhall Wood and Water Walk About Dunsmore Wildlife Spotting Wildlife spotting The Warwickshire countryside is filled with an abundance of beautiful plants, birds, animals and bugs © Dan Loveard all year round – particularly in About Dunsmore the spring and summer. Can you help Harry the Hedgehog find these Willenhall Wood The Dunsmore Living Landscape scheme is a lovely things? Warwickshire Wildlife Trust led project working to restore this important ancient landscape to one rich and Water Walk in wildlife accessible to all in the areas lying between Bluebell east Coventry, Rugby and north Leamington Spa. With the generous support of the National Lottery Heritage 4.5km Hilltop Farm Fund, the project is focusing on a landscape-scale level of action for wildlife in the area, allowing us to restore © Jay Warren ancient woodland, historic hedgerows, ponds and flower rich grassland, creating habitat for iconic wildlife Great-spotted such as the hazel dormouse and purple emperor Woodpecker Dunsmore Living butterfly. Landscape area By working with local partners, landowners and © Kathleen Everitt communities we are improving these habitats, helping to conserve historical sites and improve access, Blackthorn interpretation and general information about the Warwickshire Wildlife Trust area. We are also providing learning and training Brandon Marsh Nature Centre opportunities and running a range of events and Brandon Lane activities, designed to reconnect people with their local Coventry living landscape, green spaces and heritage sites. © Trust Woodland CV3 3GW This leaflet has been created to provide you with some Goldfinch 024 7630 2912 information about the local area and provide you with an [email protected] opportuinity to get up close to nature and explore. For more information, please visit exploredunsmore.org © Neil Aldridge © 2019 Warwickshire Wildlife Trust Wildlife © 2019 Warwickshire Oak tree leaf warwickshirewildlifetrust.org.uk exploredunsmore.org © Rock and wasp La n g Welcome b The walk a n k Length: 4.5km 2 A Welcome to Willenhall, thanks for stopping by. 08 v 4 e A n u You can start this walk at various points but This area includes two main green spaces, one is e we begin at the entrance to Willenhall Wood on Willenhall Wood: a mixed, deciduous woodland e Yarningale Road. Start by heading into the wood and covering nine hectares. The trees include oak, ash, ow follow the main central footpath. S wild cherry, silver birch and rowan. Along with its r e wildlife value, the reserve is known for being the i v During the spring and summer, the wood comes site of a plane crash in 1994 when a Boeing 737 R alive with many flowers including a carpet of plane crashed as it was heading to Coventry Airport, bluebells in May and early June. Listen out for the unfortunately taking the lives of the crew members. drumming of the great-spotted woodpecker and take a moment to enjoy the bird soundtrack in the The other green space is Willenhall Brookstray Willenhall wood. What species can you hear? Also look out for which is an open grassland with large thickets of the green man sculpture, with folklore depicting it Brookstray as an ancient guardian of the forest. blackthorn as well as a play area that sits alongside R the River Sowe. Along the river are many willows H em bin ood em There is the opportunity to take a take a short and it is said that the old spelling of Willenhall was o R br circular route back through the wood which ‘Willihale’ meaning ‘willow corner’. Passing through R d an ce ane continues to be buggy and wheelchair friendly. the Brookstray is also the Sowe Valley Footpath. R s L oa me Leave the wood onto Middle Ride, which will take This is a way-marked 8.5 mile riverside walk d Ja stretching from Hawkesbury Junction in the north St you to St James Lane. Take a left at the junction and to Whitley Wood in the south. The walk’s landscape head to Remembrance Road on which you pass the and character constantly changes, some parts Hagard Community Centre. Turn right onto Robin Hood Road and then right again into Fingal Close. At are green and rural, others are more built up, but Willenhall the end is the Brookstray that supports a rich variety all provide a place of escape from the noise and of wildlife. Expect to see the burst of white in spring pressures of the City. from the blackthorn flowers and the sloe berries later on in the year. Take a moment to stop off at the bridge over the Key Middle Ride River. In the summer you may be lucky enough to hear the delightful song of the blackcap, a migrant Start / Finish Special feature e bird that breeds here. There are many wild flowers iv to spot including the sweet smelling meadowsweet Walk route James L r Viewpoint t ane D that blooms from June to September. S ll xa Disabled ro Follow the Sowe Valley Footpath to London Road Nature reserve access route W and turn left. Go past The Iliffe Hotel, which was Willenhall built in 1897 for Dr. Charles Webb Iliffe and later Path to play area Woodland Wood converted into The Chace Hotel in 1930. It still B SS retains many traditional features of The Chace 4 Y PA 1 a BY with its mock Tudor structures, including the wood 1 r Sowe Valley Heritage site n RN 0 in d TE panelling and mullioned windows. Footpath ga a S l e R o EA WC’s RY Turn left onto St James Lane - this was the original Parking T centre of the village - and then onto Yarningale 300m EN V Road. A left onto Wroxall Drive leads you to another Play area O small wood before you arrive back at the start. 1000ft C 46 A.
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