Parrot's Drumble Nature Reserve, Talke Pits, Stoke on Trent, Staffs.
N 53° 04.177 W 002° 15.983
30U E 549153 N 5880266
A sign showing your location at the parking area for Parrot's Drumble Nature Reserve.
Waymark Code: WMTXGW
Location: West Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/19/2017
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The information board is situated by a small parking area on Pit Lane.From the parking area walk down the footpath for about a ¼mile and it will take you to the entrance of the reserve indicated by a named marker post.
Staffordshire Wildlife Trusts "Parrot's Drumble" is a hidden gem - a beautiful ancient woodland that is alive with bluebells in the spring.It is a small reserve covering about 12.00 hectares with a circular trails.
The name derives from the previous owner – Richard Parrott who owned the land in the 1700’s and ‘drumble’ which is a local term for a stream running through a wooded valley.
It is one of the the Trust’s finest ancient woodland nature reserves. Ancient woodland is an area that has been continuously covered by trees since the 1600’s. Trees in the reserve include oak, ash, hazel, birch, rowan, willow and alder.
In the spring time bluebells grow in abundance forming a brilliant carpet of blue beneath the trees. Many flowers such as dogs mercury, wood anemone, marsh marigolds and wood sorrel can also be found.
It is a haven for birds such as, the greater and lesser spotted woodpeckers, nuthatches and trees creepers.
The water in Valley Brook which runs through the reserve is
discoloured by iron- oxide which leaches out from nearby ancient mine workings turning it orange.
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