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You need to visit Brockholes Nature Reserve in Lancashire! ????????
Brockholes Nature Reserve is a free to visit nature reserve just outside of Preston, Lancashire, at Junction 31 of the M6 Motorway.
I decided to go for a short walk from Preston along the River Ribble which passes right through the middle of Brockholes Nature Reserve. The reserve is home to thousands of animals, insects and plantlife and it's free to visit! You need to pay for car parking, but it's £5 max (per day) in the busy months.
Brockholes visitors centre was the UK's first floating visitors centre. In the visitors centre section, there's a restaurant, a cafe, an ice cream stall, a shop and they also have all sorts of activities for kids such as butterfly making and even activities for adults such as stargazing.
Around the nature reserve, you'll find many amazing wood carvings, and the sections of the nature reserve are spread out all over the park, for example, the viking wood, which had viking style wood carvings, like a viking boat, Thor's Hammer (Mjölnir) and another bird which I didn't know the name of!
A lot of effort has been put into Brockholes Nature Reserve to make it a fun place for kids (and adults) to visit for free, but not only that, it's a great place to conserve the wildlife and plantlife in the area.
I definitely didn't explore Brockholes enough in the short amount of time I was there, and I will have definitely missed some things out, so I'll definitely be back to Brockholes soon. You can see why Brockholes is a popular tourist destination in Lancashire, especially seeing as though it's a free to visit nature reserve, just off the motorway!
If you're looking for what to do in Preston, get yourself down to Brockholes with the kids, or even on your own or with your partner with a picnic in hand. If you're looking for outdoor activities in Preston, Brockholes Nature Reserve could be exactly what you're looking for - you can keep the kids entertained for hours on end in this nature reserve.
Location: Brockholes Nature Reserve, Preston, Lancashire
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Young Stoats at Brockholes Nature Reserve, nr. Preston, Lancs. UK
We went out for the day to Brockholes and came across these young stoats practising their hunting skills in play on the path to the No. 1 Pit.
Brockholes Nature Reserve
A Short Introduction to The Brockholes Nature Reserve and some of what it has to offer. Including the UK's first ever Floating Visitor VIllage.
Interview with Anne Selby, CEO Brockholes Nature Reserve, Lancashire, England
Marj Boyer interviews the Chief Executive of a unique nature reserve in Lancashire England which has the only floating Visitor Centre in the country. The struggles it has faced include shortage of public funds; major teething problems and a very wet first summer. See how they overcame them and what their plans are for the future.
Brockholes Nature Reserve near J31 M6 in Lancashire
Brockholes Nature Reserve near J31 of the M6 in Lancashire
Brockholes is a new kind of nature reserve, owned and managed by The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside. There's lots to see and do at Brockholes, you can visit the floating Visitor Village with a restaurant, shops and Welcome Centre or even stay outside and explore family-friendly hides, walking trails and a kids play area! There are decent conference and business meeting room-type facilities too. If the business PowerPoint presentation is not your thing, you can take a stroll by the River Ribble, explore the woods or enjoy looking at the lakes on site - they have all been specially designed to attract all kinds of wildlife.
The reserve has several types of habitat to attract different species and the various things they feed on. As a new reserve, it still looks a bit shiny shiny, but this is a long-term project, so the area will become more wildlife-rich as time progresses. At the moment (July 2011), it is pretty easy to see lots of the very common ducks, rooks/crows and seagulls that you'd see in the local park. A bit of careful observation will also reveal coots (and their chicks), herons, various geese and lots of dragonflies. The very careful observer may also spot lapwings, whimbrel and little ringed plovers. No doubt other bird, mammal and insect species will arrive too, but we didn't see any on the admittedly short visit we made here.
I'd like to say that it would be easy to spend the day here (which it would), but the car park fees get very expensive for more than half a day - i.e. an extremely unwelcome £10 after 5 hours! Definitely leaves me with the impression that they welcome short-stay shoppers to the gift shop and the café more than they welcome the long-stay bird watchers. Not that I'm anti-business in any way (I run my own business), but the Brockholes web-site ( sorts of looks more corporate than wildlife. At the time of writing, the front page of their web-site doesn't even show any pictures of birds. It kind of makes you wonder whether the venue was built for the convenience of the conference trade rather than the birds.
Anyway, criticism apart, Brockholes does have the potential to be a great place to visit. Go on a warm spring or summer day and check it out for less than half a day; and you might see some new birds.
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Simon Flory
Badger Specialist
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Boilton Woods, Brockholes Nature Reserve, Preston
Top 11 Tourist Attractions in Preston - Travel England
Top 11 Tourist Attractions and Beautiful Places in Preston - Travel England:
Turbary Woods Owl and Bird of Prey Sanctuary, Avenham and Miller Parks, Samlesbury Hall, Bowland Wild Boar Park, Museum of Lancashire, Brockholes Nature Reserve, Hoghton Tower, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, British Commercial Vehicle Museum, Beacon Fell Country Park, Stydd Gardens
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Afternoon tea at Brockholes Nature Reserve,
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Starling Murmuration at Brockholes Nature Reserve in Lancashire 16 November 2019
A Starling Murmuration at the Brockholes Nature Reserve in Preston, Lancashire on 16th November 2019.
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The flock gradually becomes smaller as groups of birds swoop down to roost in the reed beds next to the lake.
Brockholes is owned and managed by the Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester & North Merseyside. Based on the site of an old quarry, the Trust has used their expertise to create habitats for lots of different wildlife.
Footage from last year:
A murmuration of starlings is an amazing sight - a swooping mass of thousands of birds whirling in the sky above. Basically, a mass aerial stunt - thousands of birds all swooping and diving in unison. It's completely breathtaking to witness.
It is thought that starlings do it for many reasons. Grouping together offers safety in numbers – predators such as peregrine falcons find it hard to target one bird in the middle of a hypnotising flock of thousands.
They also gather to keep warm at night and to exchange information, such as good feeding areas.
They gather over their roosting site, and perform their wheeling stunts before they roost for the night.
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Brockholes
'Brockholes is a nature reserve near Preston, Lancashire, England, just off Junction 31 of the M6 motorway. It is owned by the Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside. Situated in the flood-plain of the river Ribble, it has the UK's first floating visitor village.
Brockholes was previously a major quarry extraction site. The land was bought by the Trust in January 2007, and the reserve opened to the public at Easter 2011. It has been regenerated as a mosaic of key habitats such as pools, reedbeds and woodland. The reserve is aimed less at dedicated bird-watchers and nature lovers than the general public of the big cities. The riverbank is covered in steaming ferns and rampant Himalayan Balsam.
Brockholes offers a wide range of events throughout the year and over 250 acres of trails and hides. It has already seen record numbers of breeding wading birds along with visitors such as osprey, otter and bittern. Brockholes' floating Visitor Village has won multiple awards and is the first of its kind in the UK. It houses shops, an exhibition area, an activity room for schools and community groups, a restaurant and a conference centre.
In July 2007 an architectural design competition managed by RIBA Competitions invited architects and architect-led multidisciplinary design teams to design the new visitor facilities for the Brockholes Wetland and Woodland Nature Reserve. The design created by Adam Khan Architects was selected by the Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside and partners with work commencing in 2009.'
Prince Harry embraced the idea today and urged young people to commune with nature.
'Too sweet for me!' Prince Harry declines roasted campfire marshmallow on Lancashire visit.
HIS grandfather Prince Philip was famously rude about tree-huggers but Prince Harry embraced the idea today and urged young people to commune with nature.
The fifth-in-line to the throne watched blindfolded teenagers being led into woods to put their arms around trees and take in the sensory delights of feeling the bark and the shape of the leaves and getting to know the different types of species.
Harry, 33, endorsed the activities of a group of young people taking part in ecotherapy activities designed to help them overcome mental health issues such as anxiety and depression and build their confidence and team skills.
He called for a generation of young people who have grown up indoors on telephone, computer and television screens to go outside and discover the great outdoors.
But he carefully avoided donning a blindfold himself. I might watch this one, he said as the teenagers, guided by a partner, set off in search of a tree to hug at Brockholes nature reserve in Preston, Lancashire.
He watched another group of young people hedge laying and then crouched around a campfire where teenagers were toasting marshmallows and making damper bread - a soda bread traditionally baked in a campfire by Australian drovers and swagmen.
The Prince declined a marshmallow.
Walking in preston Brockholes Lancashire.
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You should visit the River Ribble in Lancashire ????????
Living in Preston in Northern England, I'm well aware that the River Ribble is our closest river, but I've never really paid much attention to this river, so I thought I'd find out some of the history of the River Ribble and go for a walk down it on the way to Brockholes Nature Reserve, just outside of Preston.
Turns out I walked the wrong way, downstream, getting me about an hour out of the way, but it turned into a nice walk besides the River Ribble.
The River Ribble was at one point, the most northern point in the ancient kingdom of Mercia! Now how's that for a piece of Ribble History?!
Whilst on the walk, I went to Brockholes Nature Reserve, but I took so much footage whilst I was there that I've turned that into a separate video, which you should also check out!
If you're into exploring rivers, then look no further than the River Ribble in Preston. You should take some time to walk around the Guild Wheel and find your way to Brockholes Nature Reserve at the end of your walk. The River Ribble is a nice river walk.
The River Ribble is a prime location for river fishing, which you can see throughout this river walk video. I also give a short list of different types of fish that you can find in the River Ribble, including Atlantic salmon, an endangered species of fish, which can be found in this particular river.
Location: River Ribble, Preston, Lancashire
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