From the many beautiful coastal reserves around Gower to stunning waterfalls and woodlands, our West Glamorgan reserves are well worth a visit. Managed by staff and volunteers we work hard to make these reserves rich in wildlife.
Llyn Fach, Rhigos Road, Neath Port Talbot
The nature reserve features a large nutrient-poor glacial lake, overlooked by dramatic north-east facing cliffs and scree, dotted with rowan …
Overton Mere, Overton, Gower, Swansea
Sea cliff, limestone grassland, heath and scrub. The reserve is named after the bay over which it looks. The reserve …
Sedger’s Bank, Port Eynon, Gower
Description: Rocky foreshore, beach, and relict sand dune grassland. Sedger’s Bank makes up a large part of the most western …
Port Eynon Point, Port Eynon, Swansea
Description: Sea cliff, foreshore, limestone grassland, heathland, secondary Ash woodland, and quarries. A large part of the reserve on the inland side has been used …
Overton Cliff & Roydon’s Corner, Overton, Gower, Swansea
Description: Sea cliffs, limestone grassland, heath and scrub. Overton Cliff can be accessed from the stile in the south east …
Long Hole Cliff Overton, Gower, Swansea
Description: Sea cliffs, limestone grassland, heath, and caves. Long Hole Cliff is named after a small cave in the centre …
Deborah’s Hole, Pilton, Gower, Swansea
Description: Sea cliff, calcareous grassland, and heath. Deborah’s Hole is named after a small inaccessible cave which during archaeological excavations …
Berry Wood, Knelston, Gower, Swansea
Description: Ancient mixed deciduous woodland. Berry Wood is an example of mixed woodland, rare in this part of Gower, situated on poorly drained glacial drift …
Blaenant y Gwyddyl, Glyneath, Neath, Port Talbot
Description: Ancient upland Oak woodland, stream, and waterfalls. Pied flycatcher by Margaret Holland Blaenant y Gwyddyl is an area of …
Bolgoed Quarry, Pontarddulais, Swansea
Description: Bolgoed is an old sandstone quarry, last worked in 1955. Tawny Owl Damian Waters Drumimages The habitat consists of …
Broad Pool, Cilibion, Gower, Swansea
Description: Broad Pool is a large body of freshwater lying in a shallow basin on the limestone plateau beneath Cefn …
Coed Gawdir, Aberdulais, Neath/Port Talbot
Description: An acidic pond, within an ancient woodland site under restoration. The Trust’s reserve is a small part of a much larger planted ancient woodland …
Craig Cilhendre Woods, Pontardawe, Swansea
Description: Craig Cilhendre is upland Oak woodland, part of which is ancient in origin, with some patches of wet woodland, …
Cwm Ivy Woods and Betty Church Reserve, Cwm Ivy, Gower, Swansea
Description: Ancient broadleaved woodland, plantation, calcareous pasture and quarry. Cwm Ivy Woods and Betty Church reserve is situated on the …
The Elizabeth and Rowe Harding Nature Reserve, Ilston, Gower, Swansea
Description: Carboniferous limestone quarry, plantation, scrub, and surrounding woodland. The quarry was worked until the middle of 1966, and was …
Gelli-Hir Wood, Fairwood Common, Gower, Swansea
Description: Mixed broadleaved and wet woodland, partly ancient, and pond. Dormouse by Bev Lewis (BWT) Gelli-hir is situated on deep glacial drift over Carboniferous grits …
Hambury Wood, Landimore, Gower, Swansea
Description: Ancient woodland on an abandoned sea cliff. Treecreeper Bob Coyle Hambury Wood‚ is dominated by Oak and Ash with an …
Killay Marsh, Dunvant, Swansea
Description: Fen, wet grassland and wet woodland. This urban nature reserve has a rich diversity of habitats which include marsh/marshy …
Kilvrough Manor Woods and Redden Hill, Parkmill, Gower, Swansea
Description: Ancient Ash woodland and Beech plantation. Kilvrough Manor Woods comprises two areas of woodland, on either side of the …
Llanrhidian Hill, Llanrhidian, Gower, Swansea
Description: Limestone grassland, scrub, and quarries. Much of the site occupies a steep north-facing slope on Carboniferous limestone, giving fine views overlooking the Burry Estuary. …
The Lucas Reserve, Frog Lane, Llanmadoc, Gower, Swansea
Description: Wet woodland, grassland and scrub. The Lucas Reserve is a long meadow sloping northwards down to Burry Pill. Most …
Melincwrt Waterfalls, Resolven, Neath, Port Talbot
Please Note: The Nature Reserve and Falls will be closed from Tuesday 13th – Thursday 15th July for commercial filming …
Peel Wood, Oystermouth, Swansea
Important Notice We are sorry but at the present time we have decided to close this nature reserve to the …
Prior’s Wood and Meadow, Three Crosses, Gower, Swansea
Important Update: The woodland paths in Prior’s Wood and Meadow are currently closed to the public. The ride at the bottom of the woods and …
Red Jacket Fen, Llandarcy, Neath/Port Talbot
Description: Open water, lowland fen, and wet woodland. reed bunting by Amy Lewis This is a lowland fen situated in …
Redley Cliff, Caswell Bay, Gower, Swansea
Description: Coastal limestone headland, with secondary broadleaved woodland, scrub, and grassland. Redley Cliff lies on the limestone headland at the …