Stockley Trail The Stockley Trail is a 2 mile multi user trail for walkers, cyclists and horse riders. The trail runs parallel to the River following the route of the former Glapwell Colliery branch line. The original section of trail was created in 1993 by County Council and has recently been extended as part of the land reclamation project of the former South Tip. The Stockley Trail provides access to Peter Fidler Reserve, Carr Vale Nature Reserve and is served by many footpath links to local villages and other places of interest. Changing Places

Carr Vale Flash Nature Reserve This Derbyshire Wildlife Trust Reserve originally formed by mining Snipe Bog Nature Reserve subsidence has recently been extended by the Changing Places Project. The new wetland habitat areas include open water, shingle Located within the old colliery yard to the banks and reedswamp surrounded by meadow and scrub. east of the is an area of derelict land commonly known as Snipe Redshank These habitats attract a variety of wildlife. In spring, plovers and Bog. This area contains two small ponds, Tringa Totanus several species of duck come to breed. In winter, large flocks of reedbed and carboniferous limestone Lapwing, Golden plover and gulls use the site. The meadow areas embankments colonised by rare calcareous are also popular with butterflies and the pools attract dragonflies Broadbodied Chaser plant species. With ecological advice from such as Black Tailed Skimmers and Broadbodied Chaser . Libuella Depressa Derbyshire Wildlife Trust, Groundwork Walkers access only from Stockley Trail and Peter Fidler Reserve. Creswell have improved access to this area Carr Vale Flash Nature Reserve whilst maintaining these diverse habitats. New Flash Sutton Scarsdale Hall

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The recently named Peter Fidler Reserve is and Southern Hawker with Common and will see now during June to August is the situated on the former Bolsover South Tip. Blue Tailed Damselflies. 10.6cm of the Emperor. The tip has been transformed by Derbyshire These flying jewels are following in the The site has been dedicated to the memory of County Council Consulting Engineers as part footsteps of their illustrious ancestors Peter Fidler, who was born in 1769 at Mill A Millennium Commission of the grant aided colliery closure reclamation discovered as fossils at Bolsover Pit in 1978 Farm, adjacent to Bolsover Tip South. Peter Lottery Project programme. Emperor Dragonfly that lived 300,000,000 years ago. The first Fidler became a famous North American Anax Imperator The site contains a number of valuable one created quite a stir both locally and explorer and chief surveyor for the Hudson habitats, including willow carr, reed bed, river nationally. It was named as a new species, Bay Company in Canada. corridor and neutral grassland along the Erasipteron bolsoveri (Gracefully winged of The Peter Fidler Reserve comprises new disused embankment. Sensitive reclamation Bolsover) with a 20cm wingspan, it was larger pathways, picnic areas and viewpoints works have protected these habitats and than any living dragonfly and the oldest then overlooking Bolsover and the Doe Lea Valley. created new ponds, woodland and meadows. known from the fossil record in the UK. A The commemorative stone cairn installed on second find in the pit that year proved to be In the summer Dragonflies are on the wing in the reserve similar is to his memorial at the largest fossil insect, named by the British Dauphin in Canada. Access to the Peter Fidler the Peter Fidler Reserve. Watch over the new Museum in 1980 as Typhus ailuculum (Giant pools for these fascinating insects. You will see Reserve is available for walkers, cyclists and Dragonfly of the Dawn) with a wingspan of horse riders. Peter Fidler Reserve Former Bolsover South Tip B Emperor, Brown Hawker, Common Darter 50cm. The largest Dragonfly wingspan you