New fences and gates have been installed at our WTSWW's Roydon's Corner Nature Reserve to ensure effective grazing management of this field and the adjacent cliffs.
The Trust bought Roydon's Corner, a former market garden field next door to our Overton Cliff Nature Reserve in the 1990s.
It was restored to grassland but then suffered from under-management it became overgrown and scrubby. In the last few years it has been restored and it is now an important parcel of land; it is managed in its own right as productive species rich pasture but it is also essential to our grazing management of the cliffs and coastal heath by serving as “run-back” land should we need to take livestock off of these reserves in a hurry.
Paul Thornton, WTSWW's Reserve Manager said, "Thanks to the Nature Networks Fund 2 we are able to purchase these essential fences making the reserve secure and safe for cattle and ponies."
The Nature Networks Fund is being delivered by The National Lottery Heritage Fund in Wales on behalf of the Welsh Government and in partnership with Natural Resources Wales.
