Denaby Ings Nature Reserve
Riverside meadows, dry meadows, open water, woodland scrub and hedgerow habitats are all found at Denaby Ings and support a diverse range of species. Grey herons sit by the river waiting to strike. In the meadows butterflies are abundant visiting the assorted wildflowers, whereas winter sees flocks of migrant birds including fieldfare and lesser redpoll.
Yellands Meadow Nature Reserve
Yellands Meadow is a tiny meadow lying next to the River Swale and is one of twelve included in the ‘The Muker Meadows’ SSSI.A stream, lined with alders, runs diagonally across the meadow. There is a small stone barn on the western boundary containing the original stone cow stalls.
Welwick Saltmarsh Nature Reserve
Welwick Saltmarsh is the most extensive area of saltmarsh on the north bank of the River Humber.
Upper Park Wood Nature Reserve
Spurn National Nature Reserve
The brand new Spurn Discovery Centre is now open! The facility includes a café, a dedicated education space for school groups and displays offering an insight into Spurn’s rich heritage and the variety of wildlife and habitats to be found in the reserve.
Directions
Follow the A1033 from Hull to Patrington. Turn off (right) to the B1445 towards Easington and Kilnsea. Turn right at the T junction in Easington and continue along the minor road to Kilnsea. Turn right at the crossroads towards the Spurn Discovery Centre.
Sprotbrough Flash Nature Reserve
Please note the main footpath along the side of the lake at Sprotbrough flash will be closed 23rd Jan – 17th Feb whilst the council upgrade the footpath. The woods will still be open.
South House Pavement Nature Reserve
Surrounded by dry stone walls, typical in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, South House Pavement Nature Reserve is a fantastic example of a limestone pavement.A great site for the sure-footed, the mosaic of narrow clints (blocks) and grykes (fissures) does mean it can be rather difficult to venture across, particularly in wet weather when it is best avoided.
Southerscales Nature Reserve
The outstanding feature of Southerscales is a huge area of open limestone pavement which is truly awe-inspiring with a fascinating pattern of runnels on its surface and deep grykes which provide shelter for many interesting plants including baneberry and rigid buckler fern.
In the shallower, grassy grykes, plants such as meadow rue, fragrant orchid, Northern and limestone bedstraw and field garlic grow. In the wetter places you may find the stunning bird's-eye primrose.
Semer Water Nature Reserve
Semer Water is the largest of only three natural water bodies in Yorkshire; a glacial lake which was formed at the end of the last Ice Age when huge amounts of glacial till blocked the outflow.
Rifle Butts Quarry Nature Reserve
Rifle Butts Quarry was created to provide stone for the construction of the railway line adjacent to the nature reserve.
The site was then used as a rifle range from the 1890s to the First World War.
