Local Reserves
There are a number of reserves in and very close to the boundary of the Horncastle and Woodhall Spa Area. These are listed below and if you would like further information about them please go to the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust website.
Roughton Moor Wood Roughton
10.1 hectares (25 acres)
woodland made up of oak, rowan and Scots pine.
Moor Farm Kirkby-on-Bain
47.7 hectares (118 acres)
A mixture of heath, dry and wet pastures, bog and woodland, on the fen edge sands and gravel.
Kirkby Moor Kirkby-on-bain
75 hectares (185.2acres)
The Reserve is the largest remnant of the once extensive heathlands of the Woodhall district. A large part of the reserve is dominated by heather, bracken and waxy hairgrass, together with moss and lichen communities. The southern part of the reserve contains a lake. There are oak, birch and pine woodland, and developing birch, rowan, hawthorn and sallow scrub.
Kirkby Gravel Pits Tattershall Thorpe
14.8 hectares (36.5 acres)
Much of the reserve consists of worked out shallow sandpits with some willow scrub and recently planted trees. The reserve is an excellent bird watching site.
Banovallum House Horncastle
1.5 hectares (3.7 acres)
Banovallum House is the Trusts headquarters and the grounds are open to visitors during office house. A waymarked route of 0.5 km (0.3 miles) is available to visitors and the grounds contain a more formal walled garden.
Hatton Meadows Hatton
4 hectares (9.8 acres)
The reserve consists of two small damp meadows, with a small beck which makes a dog leg course through the meadows.
Sotby Meadows Sotby
6.1 hectares (15.2 acres)
These small meadows with the adjoining green lane and large old hedges form a landscape and wildlife feature of special interest, representing a type of countryside that has now almost vanished in Lincolnshire.
Silverines Meadows Asterby
5.9 hectares (14.7 acres)
An attraction of these meadows is a small marsh traversed by a stream where there are southern marsh-orchid, common spotted orchid, kingcup, ragged robin and water avens.
Furze Hill Hagworthingham
4.7 hectares (11.6 acres)
The reserve consists of hillside grassland and streamside habitats in the valley of a tributary of the river Lynn.
Goslings Corner Wood Langton-by-Wragby
10.2 hectares (25.2 Acres)
This is one of the smallest Lincolnshire oak/lime woods, but it is an excellent representative of a distinctive type of these nationally important woodlands, and none has a richer flora.
