Welcome to Avon Valley Woodlands This Local Nature Reserve beside the River Avon is made up of three maturing broadleaved woodlands: Conham River Park, Hencliff Wood and Bickley Wood. Please explore this dramatic and beautiful landscape alongside the variety of wildlife that lives here } Conham Ferry & Beese’s bar & Tea Gardens BBQ To area Troopers Hill HillBarton History Group Conham Ferry, the oldest on LNR A rich heritage The Pump the Avon crosses the river House to Beese’s Tea Gardens. Trees and shrubs now cover up Mrs Beese, who provided evidence of this site’s busy past. refreshments to the many Early industries grew up because travellers using the ferry run by Mr Beese, founded the gardens the river provided a water supply, Rowing power and a means of transport. Club in 1846. For information please You can still see the ruins of the old C visit: : www.beeses.co.uk ONH copper smelter in the woods, and Conham AM HILL or phone: ✆ 0117 977 7412 the black building blocks made River Park from the copper slag. It is said that Ruins tallow candles were also made birds

here. These were needed in the To Richard Aston Ian McGuire Richard Aston nearby coalmines that operated in Panorama Walk Tawny owl Great spotted the area until the 1920s. R Listen for Female woodpecker i ‘keewick blackbird Woodland bird with v Conham keewick’ (male); There were 12 small quarries e The male lives distinctive bouncing r A ‘erieee’ (female). up to its name, flight. Clings to tree between Conham River Park and v Ferry Both also use but the female is trunks and branches. o ‘hooo ho ho mottled brown. Makes loud ‘drumming’ Mills. They were extracting n hooooo’. A common bird. sound in spring. Pennant sandstone for the building of , Bath and the railway. LNR Boundary bats & butterflies

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Danger www.bats.org.uk The most common and Named after the pattern Please keep to paths. Keep away from dangerous structures, Picnic Area widespread of Britain’s on the underside of its quarry faces and cliff edges. Steep paths in places. © Copyright South Council 2006. All rights reserved. bats – can consume wings. Its numbers can This map is reproduced from Ordnance Survey material with the permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office © Crown Copyright. Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown Copyright and may lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. 100023410, 2008. Benches 3,000 insects in one vary greatly from year to night. year. John John Kaczanow { Daubenton’s { Red admiral Ruth Coleman Accidental hero The roosting A plentiful, adaptable opportunities and and very mobile • Quarrymen take a break www.bats.org.uk riverside location offered butterfly, its numbers for the camera. Pennant You can see the arches of Brunel’s Great Western Railway where, on 31 by these woodlands are increasing. The sandstone is difficult to carve make this the perfect caterpillar feeds on or saw, but splits well into thin March 1876, an express train hit and killed quarryman John Chiddy. environment for this bat. stinging nettles. R E Stebbings The thick walls of the old slabs. Many old pavements This incident is remembered in a mounted stone at Memorial Cottage. { Noctule { Meadow brown copper smelter works near in the wider area came from One of our largest bats The most abundant the 100 steps. these quarries. Pit Road was renamed Memorial Road to mark the tragic accident. • that favours a woodland species in many www.bats.org.uk habitat near water. habitats. Adults fly even All British bats use in dull weather when echolocation to orientate most other butterflies Much of the Avon Valley is owned by Council and is managed in themselves at night. are inactive. partnership with the Friends of Hanham Nature Reserve. For information on events and ✆ workdays 01454 863592 * [email protected] Join in the fun! An audio guide relating to Conham River Park, its history and For information on the Reserve or Walks for Health, use the search at: : www.southlgos.gov.uk Look out for a sound surprise where you can listen to short stories, memories and tall tales... the bats you are likely find there is available from local libraries.