Cabilla and Redrice Woods is a nature reserve of the

Cornwall Wildlife Trust The Cornwall Wildlife Trust is a charitable organisation founded in 1962 that is concerned solely with Cornwall, England. It deals with the conservation and preservation of Cornwall's wildlife, geology and habitats managing over 50 nature reser ...

, about east of

Bodmin Bodmin () is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated south-west of Bodmin Moor. The extent of the civil parish corresponds fairly closely to that of the town so is mostly urban in character. It is bordere ...

, in

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, England. It is an extensive area of mixed woodland.

Description

The area of the reserve is . There is a walking trail that takes in various features of the woodland. It includes some steep inclines."Cabilla and Redrice Woods"
''Cornwall Wildlife Trust''. Retrieved 14 January 2021. Features in Cabilla Wood include centuries-old

coppiced Coppicing is a traditional method of woodland management which exploits the capacity of many species of trees to put out new shoots from their stump or roots if cut down. In a coppiced wood, which is called a copse, young tree stems are repeated ...

woodland, where species have evolved life cycles dependent on coppicing; a pond, habitat of amphibians,

dragonflies A dragonfly is a flying insect belonging to the infraorder Anisoptera below the order Odonata. About 3,000 extant species of true dragonfly are known. Most are tropical, with fewer species in temperate regions. Loss of wetland habitat threa ...

and other insects; a large

adit An adit (from Latin ''aditus'', entrance) is an entrance to an underground mine which is horizontal or nearly horizontal, by which the mine can be entered, drained of water, ventilated, and minerals extracted at the lowest convenient level. Adits ...

of a disused mine, home of the greater and lesser

horseshoe bat Horseshoe bats are bats in the family Rhinolophidae. In addition to the single living genus, ''Rhinolophus'', which has about 106 species, the extinct genus '' Palaeonycteris'' has been recognized. Horseshoe bats are closely related to the Old ...

; an

alder Alders are trees comprising the genus ''Alnus'' in the birch family Betulaceae. The genus comprises about 35 species of monoecious trees and shrubs, a few reaching a large size, distributed throughout the north temperate zone with a few sp ...

coppice; and a building of East Wheal Jane, a former lead and silver mine."Cabilla and Redrice Woods nature trail"
Leaflet of ''Cornwall Wildlife Trust''. Retrieved 14 January 2021. Redrice Wood, east of Cabilla Wood across a stream, consists mostly of

sessile oak ''Quercus petraea'', commonly known as the sessile oak, Cornish oak, Irish Oak or durmast oak, is a species of oak tree native to most of Europe and into Anatolia and Iran. The sessile oak is the national tree of Ireland, and an unofficial embl ...

coppice. There are charcoal burning platforms where, from medieval times to the late 18th century, coppiced oak was converted to charcoal. There is an oak plantation of timber trees. The blue ground beetle, found in few places in Britain, is seen in Redrice Wood.

References

{{Reflist Nature reserves of the Cornwall Wildlife Trust Forests and woodlands of Cornwall Ancient woods in England