Dunsdon National Nature Reserve Leaflet

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How to get to Dunsdon Dunsdon nature reserve Marsh nature reserve fritillary butterfly Just one of many beautiful places From Holsworthy take the A3072 looked after by Devon Wildlife Trust towards Bude. After 2½ miles turn right on to a minor road signed ‘Pancrasweek’. Continue on this road, passing Pancrasweek church for 1 mile until reaching a T-junction. Turn right (signed ‘Lana, Bradworthy’) continue for ¾ mile to reach entrance track and Map of car park to nature reserve on your left. Dunsdon Scale Wildlife to watch for 0 100m N Dunsdon is one of the last survivors of a traditional landscape called Main Culm. Its mix of boggy grasslands Bude Can entrances al (rem bordered by hedges and woodland ains of) avoided the drainage, ploughing and chemical fertilizers which changed the face of the countryside during the 1900s. Car Dunsdon continues to support rare Key park Culm species such as the lesser Nature reserve boundary butterfly orchid and the marsh Meadow fritillary butterfly, along with Woodland/hedges birds such as barn owls Boardwalk and tree pipits. Walking route This is a large nature To A3072 (Holsworthy) Public footpath reserve and will take Roads 2 hours+ to explore. Bridge It can be wet and Viewpoints uneven underfoot. A shorter walk along Dunsdon is Devon’s Coronation Meadow a level boardwalk to a To Vealand Farm – a mark of its importance to the nation’s nature reserve (2 miles) natural heritage. Find out more at wildflower meadow is www.coronationmeadows.org.uk The Bude Canal was fully also available. opened in 1823 but closed in Lesser butterfly 1891. Herons now hunt along it, while a walking trail links About us orchid the nature reserve to Devon We are a charity and rely on your support – Wildlife Trust’s Vealand Farm Step back in time and through membership, donations and gifts in nature reserve. explore a traditional Wills – to care for places like this. This nature reserve has been supported by landscape with wildflower Viridor Credits Environmental Company with Want to find out more? funding via the Landfill Community Fund. Go to www.devonwildlifetrust.org to learn meadows, high hedges, about the work we do to protect Devon’s trees and the remains of amazing wildlife and to discover other wild He ron places to explore. an old canal Registered Charity no. 213224 www.devonwildlifetrust.org Protecting Wildlife for the Future.

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