Fernwood Caravan Park
A peaceful park set in wooded countryside, with a screened, tree-lined touring area and coarse…
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The Wem Moss NNR is an outstanding example of a lowland raised bog, a wildlife habitat that only exists today in Britain in a few tiny fragments. This miraculous relic of a once-common former wilderness is encircled by trees in an otherwise intensive agricultural landscape. Wem Moss is famous for its invertebrate life, in particular the great raft spider, a six-inch monster that walks across the pools in the peat bogs in search of its prey. All three British species of carnivorous sundew are found here, along with the starry golden spikes of bog asphodel, the fragrant bog myrtle and bog rosemary. Adders can also be found sunning themselves on the Moss. The Shropshire Wildlife Trust, which manages the reserve, wages a continuous battle with encroaching bushes and trees which, if left unchecked, would consume millions of gallons of water, causing the bog to dry out.
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Discover Shropshire
Perhaps nowhere else in England will you find a county so deeply rural and with so much variety as Shropshire. Choose a clear day, climb to the top of The Wrekin, and look down on that ‘land of lost content’ so wistfully evoked by A E Housman. Peer through your binoculars and trace the course of Britain’s longest river as the Severn sweeps through the county, from the Breidden Hills to Wyre Forest, slicing Shropshire in two. To the north is a patchwork of dairy fields, hedgerows, copses and crops, broken at intervals by rugged sandstone ridges such as Grinshill or Nesscliffe, and dissected by a complex network of canals.
Spilling over the border into neighbouring Cheshire and North Wales is the unique meres and mosses country, with serenely smooth lakes glinting silver, interspersed with russet-tinged expanses of alder-fringed peat bog, where only the cry of the curlew disturbs the silence. South of the Severn lies the Shropshire Hills AONB. It’s only when you walk Wenlock Edge that you fully discover what a magical place it is – glorious woods and unexpectedly steep slopes plunge to innumerable secret valleys, meadows, streams and farmhouses, all tucked away, invisible from the outside world.
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