Rachel Bradshaw
Rachel Bradshaw
Rachel Bradshaw
Crown Farm Nature Reserve
Crown Farm Nature Reserve is a 17 hectare partly restored sand quarry, which forms a post extraction/restoration phase of the larger active Cheshire Sands quarry in Oakmere.
Location
Crown Farm Quarry, Stoneyford Lane, Oakmere, Northwich, Cheshire, CW8 2WN
Know before you go
Dogs
When to visit
Opening times
No public accessBest time to visit
No public accessAbout the reserve
The steep flower-rich banks support a rich diversity of pollinators such as solitary bees and specialist grassland butterflies including the priority small heath butterfly and the common blue and small copper butterflies.
Other habitats on site include young woodland, grassland and wetland.
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Location map
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