Brecknock Nature Reserves
Drostre Wood
Drostre Wood is a small mixed deciduous woodland containing oak and birch. Below the canopy of the tallest trees there …
Cae Pwll y Bo
This small damp meadow is known for its spectacular display of globeflowers. The reserve is all that remains of a …
Ystradfawr
This reserve, once the site of extensive coal mining, is a great example of how nature has reclaimed the landscape. …
Trewalkin Meadow
Trewalkin Meadow is a small, damp, flower-rich meadow at the foot of the Black Mountains between Llangorse and Talgarth. It …
Wern Plemys
The reserve consists of three wildflower meadows and a large area of woodland. The reserve lies on the site of …
Vicarage Meadows
This wildflower-rich meadow and wet pasture is set on the side of a hill in the Irfon valley and lies …
Allt Rhongyr
Allt Rhongyr is within the Brecon Beacons National Park, adjacent to Craig y Rhiwarth Nature Reserve and offers dramatic views of the Tawe Valley. It …
Darren Fawr
Darren Fawr is the largest and most spectacular of the Trust’s reserves. It consists of a steep hill-side, covered with …
Cae Lynden
Cwm Wanderers once played football on this site. It is now a nature reserve of wet tussocky grassland known as …
Pen y Waun
The Pen y Waun nature reserve consists of two small fields situated on the edge of Waun-y-Mynach common. The fields …
Cae Eglwys
This reserve is a good example of a traditional wildflower meadow, a rare habitat in these days of intensively managed farmland where large quantities of …
Craig y Rhiwarth
This reserve contains some of the finest examples of limestone plant communities in Brecknock. The reserve contains more than 400 …
Glasbury Cutting
This nature reserve used to be part of the railway line from Brecon to Hereford. Parts of the railway were …
Cae Bryntywarch
This wildflower meadow has always been managed traditionally with grazing by cattle or ponies from spring to autumn. This kind …
Llandefaelog Wood
This reserve is a charming small area of woodland renowned for its floral display.
Coed Dyrysiog
A beautiful area of ancient woodland and unusually a registered common that slopes down to the banks of the Nant …
Pwll-y-Wrach
Important Notice Please note that until further notice, some of the paths on this nature reserve will soon be closed …
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Telephone: 01874 625708
E-mail: info@welshwildlife.org
Postal Address:
Brecknock Office
6 The Bulwark
Brecon
Powys
LD3 7LB
Telephone: 01874 625708
E-mail: info@welshwildlife.org
Postal Address:
Brecknock Office
6 The Bulwark
Brecon
Powys
LD3 7LB
Open to the public
All the Trust’s nature reserves are open to our members and the public to visit for free, on foot, to enjoy the rich and diverse wildlife present. Please always follow the Countryside Code when visiting.
Managing the reserves
We carry out a range of management work on the reserves, aided by its Reserves Work Party. Activities include maintaining and improving paths, cutting and raking hay, coppicing woodland and scrub clearance. Cattle and ponies are also used at low numbers to graze wildflower meadows at appropriate times of the year. We are always looking for volunteers to help us manage the reserves on our work party days, please see our events page for details or call the office on 01874 625708.
We are involved in a Living Landscapes project across Powys called Where the Wild Things Are, which you can get involved with.
You can find out more about where to see Brecknock’s dragonflies here
Find out about the history of the Wildlife Trust in Brecknock
If you’d like to help us protect nature reserves like this then please consider becoming a member of WTSWW
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