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Brecknock Reserves

The Brecknock Wildlife Trust manages over 20 nature reserves across Brecknock covering a range of habitats including wildflower meadows, old pastures, and woodlands. These provide a refuge for creatures such as dormice, butterflies and bats plus a range of interesting and unusual plants including globeflowers, toothwort and orchids.


Brechfa Pool

Brechfa Pool is a small shallow-bottomed lake located at a height of 900ft. Its seasonally varying water level provides an ideal home for several rare plants.

Cae Bryntywarch

This wildflower meadow has always been managed traditionally with grazing by cattle or ponies from spring to autumn.

Cae Eglwys

This reserve is a good example of a traditional wildflower meadow.

Cae pwll y Bo

This small damp meadow is known for its spectacular display of globeflowers.

Wern Plemys

The reserve lies on the site of a former coal-mine and is an example of how nature can reclaim an area.

Coed Dyrysiog

This reserve is a beautiful area of wooded common that covers an area of 7.3 hectares.

Craig y Rhiwarth

This reserve contains some of the finest examples of limestone plant communities in Brecknock.

Cwm Claisfer

Cwm Claisfer is a mixture of commercial forestry with areas of nature conservation interest.

Cwm Oergwm

This nature reserve consists of a narrow band of woodland with glades.

Darren Fawr

Darren Fawr is the largest and most spectacular of the Trust's reserves.

Daudraeth Illtyd

This reserve is made up of three separate wetland sites: two pools at the Traeth and Blaencamlais Pool.

Drostre Wood

This is a small mixed deciduous woodland containing oak and birch.

Dyffryn Crawnon

This large site (190 hectares) stretches right around the head of the Crawnon valley as a belt of woodland.

Glasbury Cutting

This nature reserve used to be part of the railway line from Brecon to Hereford.

Llandefaelog Wood

This reserve is a charming small area of woodland renowned for its floral display.

Pen y Waun

The Pen y Waun nature reserve consists of two small fields situated on the edge of Waun-y-Mynach common.

Pwll-y-wrach

This is Brecknock Wildlife Trust's most visited nature reserve which slopes down to the River Enig.

The Byddwn

This small nature reserve gives excellent views of the Brecon Beacons.

Trewalkin Meadow

Trewalkin Meadow is a small, damp, flower-rich meadow at the foot of the Black Mountains.

Vicarage Meadows

This 3.6 hectares of wildflower rich meadow and wet pasture is set on the side of a hill in the Irfon valley.

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