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Glorious grasslands
A summer meadow is a beautiful sight, but there’s so much more to it than gently waving grass heads and fabulous flowers.
Blakehill Farm including Stoke Common Meadow
This former military airfield in Cricklade has been turned back into a wildlife-rich hay meadow.
Echo Lodge Meadows
Visit these three meadows near Royal Wootton Bassett in spring and summer for their vivid wildflower displays.
Ramsbury Meadow
Located on the flood plain of the River Kennet.
Swindon Forest Meadows
Grassland
Flower-rich grasslands, once a part of every farm, are part of our culture. Most have developed alongside humans because of livestock grazing and cutting for hay. Many have archaeological and…
Coombe Bissett Down Project
Emmett Hill Meadows
These three hay meadows in Minety with countless wildflowers form a Site of Special Scientific Interest because of their long history of traditional farming.
Smallbrook Meadows
A mosaic of six small water meadows, wet woodland, marsh, ponds, chalk rivers, hedgerows and ditches.
Calaminarian grassland
This is a strange, sparse habitat of grassland growing on old mining tracks and slag heaps, on river gravels and naturally exposed metal-rich soils in the mountains. Only the toughest metal-loving…
Meadow vetchling
A scrambling plant, Meadow vetchling has yellow flowers. It is a member of the pea family and can be seen on rough grassland, waste ground and roadside verges.