This is a pocket of traditional farming landscape in the City! Once part of the former Ronkswood Hill Farm, the Reserve is still grazed by cattle in the summer months, and 18th Century hedgerows have been restored. A patchwork of scrub and bramble and ponds add to the value of the site for biodiversity.
Access: Pedestrian entrances on Newtown Road, Tolladine Road, Dove Close
Site Facilities: Views, benches, interpretation board
Open: Pedestrian access 24hrs
Dogs: Well behaved dogs welcome, please put your dog on a lead when cattle are on site.
Habitat: Unimproved grassland, Scrub, Hedgerows, Ponds
Notable Wildlife: Yellow Meadow Ant, Fox, Kestrel, Green Woodpecker
Other features: Earthwork remains of WW2 searchlight battery, ridge and furrow, views to Worcester Cathedral and Malvern Hills.
Site Map
Management tasks include:
- Grazing by cattle
- Scrub clearance
- Thistle topping
- Maintenance of furniture
- Footpath cutting
- Hedgerow restoration
- Parks and Green Spaces
- Park Sites
- Holding your event in a park or green space
- Conservation and Wildlife Sites
- Fruit Picking and Foraging Policy
- Trotshill Community Orchard Project
- Lyppard Grange Local Nature Reserve
- Cherry Orchard Local Nature Reserve
- Gorse Hill and Elbury Mount Local Nature Reserve
- Laugherne Brook Local Nature Reserve
- Offerton Lane Local Nature Reserve
- Perry Wood Local Nature Reserve
- Ronkswood Hill Meadows Local Nature Reserve
- Hillwood Meadow
- New Plantation Local Nature Reserve
- Tolladine Wood Local Nature Reserve
- Warndon Wood Local Nature Reserve
- Newtown Green
- Northwick Lido
- Perdiswell Marsh
- Racefield Meadow
- Trotshill Field and Copse
- Play Area Sites
- Football Pitches
- Service standards for the management of trees in the city
- Worcester Show
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- Tourist Information Centre
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