Warburton's Wood Nature Reserve facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Warburton's Wood Nature Reserve |
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| Type | Nature reserve and SSSI |
| Location | Kingsley, Cheshire |
| OS grid | SJ555762 |
| Area | 3 hectares (7.4 acres) |
| Elevation | 15 metres (49 ft) |
| Operated by | Cheshire Wildlife Trust |
| Open | any reasonable time |
Warburton's Wood Nature Reserve is a nature reserve near Kingsley, Cheshire, England, managed by the Cheshire Wildlife Trust.
The reserve consists of semi-natural woodland either side of a clough, or small valley, containing a tributary of the River Weaver. Together with Well Wood, a similar clough woodland to the east, it forms part of the Warburton's Wood and Well Wood Site of Special Scientific Interest, which covers a larger area of 8.1 hectares (20 acres).
Trees include familiar species such as pedunculate oak (Quercus robur), ash (Fraxinus excelsior) and hazel (Corylus avellana), but also small-leaved lime (Tilia cordata) and wild service-tree (Sorbus torminalis), which are uncommon in Cheshire.
The Wildlife Trust also owns the adjacent Hunter's Wood Nature Reserve, on which trees have been planted to act as a wildlife corridor, and with the hope that specialist plants from the ancient woodland will eventually colonise.
