Scholes Coppice and Keppel's Field LNR

The site is a local nature reserve (LNR). The whole site was once the woodland of Scholes Coppice with Keppel's Column marking the southwest boundary of Wentworth Park.

The area which is now grassland was opencast during the 1940s and the soil was put back in an apparently haphazard manner. Attempts to grow grass and trees on it failed until the drainage ditches were dug. It is believed this was done by German and Italian PoWs. U-shaped concrete channels were inserted. The land was grazed by cattle during the 1960s.

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Plants from Keppel's Field and Scholes Coppice

Animals from Keppel's Field and Scholes Coppice