We welcome visitors to most of our reserves and are working to improve paths as well as providing information signs and leaflets.
Please remember the following points when visiting:
Please keep to marked paths to avoid disturbing wildlife
Carry your Trust membership card
Please keep dogs under close control (where dogs are allowed)
Observe the Country Code
Keep quiet
Take your litter home
Clowes Wood and New Fallings Coppice
SSSI
CLOWES WOOD AND NEW FALLINGS
COPPICE SSSI. 1km W of Earlswood. Entrance SP101743. 44.5
ha (110 acres) Clowes Wood owned since 1974, New Fallings Coppice
management agreement with Bournville Village Trust. Open access.
Postcode B94 5JP.
Broad-leaved woodland on acid soils
bisected by railway line. Diverse habitat includes heathland and
wet meadow. Bluebell, lily of the valley, cow-wheat and bilberry.
Woodcock and all 3 woodpeckers. Car park in Wood Lane.
Contact: Volunteer Warden
Ron Hill on 0121 705 1429.
A local birdwatcher, Matthew
Griffiths, is really keen to receive records of birds (and other
wildlife), and will acknowledge any such help. His email address is
matt_avesmaster@hotmail.com.
For anyone who wishes to keep up-to-date on the wildlife (mostly
birds) observed at Earlswood, he runs a blog at http://earlswood.blogspot.com, to which
wildlife enthusiasts are very welcome to send their
sightings.
