Warburton's Wood Nature Reserve is a

nature reserve A nature reserve (also known as a wildlife refuge, wildlife sanctuary, biosphere reserve or bioreserve, natural or nature preserve, or nature conservation area) is a protected area of importance for flora, fauna, or features of geological or ...

near

Kingsley, Cheshire Kingsley is a civil parish and a village in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It is approximately 5 miles south east of the town of Frodsham. The village is home to two primary ...

, England, managed by the

Cheshire Wildlife Trust The Cheshire Wildlife Trust (CWT) is a wildlife trust covering the county of Cheshire and parts of the counties of Greater Manchester and Merseyside, England. The trust's chairman is Bill Stothart. It manages 43 nature reserves totalling over 470 ...

. The reserve consists of semi-natural woodland either side of a clough, or small valley, containing a tributary of the

River Weaver The River Weaver is a river, navigable in its lower reaches, running in a curving route anti-clockwise across west Cheshire, northern England. Improvements to the river to make it navigable were authorised in 1720 and the work, which included ...

. Together with Well Wood, a similar clough woodland to the east, it forms part of the Warburton's Wood and Well Wood

Site of Special Scientific Interest A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Great Britain or an Area of Special Scientific Interest (ASSI) in the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom and Isle of ...

, which covers a larger area of . Trees include familiar species such as pedunculate oak (''Quercus robur''), ash (''Fraxinus excelsior'') and hazel (''Corylus avellana''), but also small-leaved lime (''Tilia cordata'') and wild service-tree (''Sorbus torminalis''), which are uncommon in Cheshire. The Wildlife Trust also owns the adjacent Hunter's Wood Nature Reserve, on which trees have been planted to act as a

wildlife corridor A wildlife corridor, habitat corridor, or green corridor is an area of habitat connecting wildlife populations separated by human activities or structures (such as roads, development, or logging). This allows an exchange of individuals between ...

, and with the hope that specialist plants from the ancient woodland will eventually colonise.

References

Nature reserves in Cheshire Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cheshire Cheshire Wildlife Trust reserves {{Cheshire-geo-stub