Naunton Beauchamp Walk. Worcestershire

We are so lucky to have to various Local Reserves and areas of Special Scientific Interest within a few miles of Upton Snodsbury. Administered by the Worcestershire Wildlife Trust and Butterfly Conservation these are protected areas.

Aside from this the area around Naunton Beauchamp, Grafton Flyford, Flyford Flavell and Upton Snodsbury which has Cowsden with its views over toward Abberon, is dominated by sheep farming and some arable farming.  The landscape is defined as Bishampton Claylands.

Here are some photos from a recent walk from Naunton Beauchamp up Piddle Brook towards North Piddle.Just a snapshot of a typical 1/2 hour walk. What isn't typical are heavy HGVs, trailers with manure and the smells of chicken farms! Tomorrow is the Wychavon Planning Committee Meeting. We hope that common sense prevails...again.

Yellowhammer on the road

Local with his vintage caravan

Local kerbside pears used for making traditional perry

Meadowsheet in the verges (careful cutting preserves these verges)

Quince alongside Piddle Brook

Crataegus otherwise known as Hawthorn berries

Overzealous pruning that took out the buzzards perch

Hedge clearing

Crack willow remnants alongside Piddle Brook after clearance

The typical weekend cyclists drawn to the area for its quiet lanes and attractive village (with normal rural smells, not chickens!)

Dandelion

Speckled Wood

Naunton Beauchamp Village with its no-chicken-farm.org sign