Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve
| Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve | |
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 Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve
 Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve shown within Bristol
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| Location |
Bradley Stoke, South Gloucestershire |
| OS grid | ST625820 |
| Coordinates | 51°31′45″N 2°32′44″W / 51.5293°N 2.5456°WCoordinates: 51°31′45″N 2°32′44″W / 51.5293°N 2.5456°W |
| Area | 60 hectares (150 acres) |
The Three Brooks Nature Reserve is a Local Nature Reserve of about 60 hectares (150 acres) in Bradley Stoke, South Gloucestershire, England. It is named after the Hortham, Patchway, and Stoke Brooks which run through it, meeting at Three Brooks Lake before flowing eastwards back under the M4 motorway as Bradley Brook.
The town of Bradley Stoke was built in the 1980s on low-grade farmland, and a number of natural features such as Savage's Wood, Webb's Wood, and Sherbourne's Brake were incorporated into the town to form the Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve. This tranquil area in the middle of the busy community of Bradley Stoke is made up of the three previously named bluebell woods, linked by an important wildlife corridor that includes brooks, ponds, areas of rough grassland, species-rich hedgerows, and a lake.
The site is owned by the South Gloucestershire Council.
The woods on the nature reserve were used predominantly as sources of timber, although the original Sherbourne's Brake copse may have been used as a covert. Webb's Wood particularly supplied coppiced timber and Savage's hornbeam and oak. Savage's Wood was preserved during the 1940s and '50s as a nature reserve by the owner of Little Stoke Farm, Howard Davis, who, as the largest local farmer, owned the land up to and including the wood. Davis was also one of the founders of the Wildfowl Trust at Slimbridge.
In the same area, Bradley Stoke Way cut a swathe through Savage's Wood when built, leaving a small remnant of the wood on the far side of the road next to Tesco's car park. Much of the ash plantations nearby were planted in reparation for this disruption of the wood.
typical woodland flora and fauna
typical woodland flora and fauna
typical woodland flora and fauna
invertebrates
The Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve comprises three bluebell woodlands; Webb's Wood, Savages's Wood, and Sherbourne's Brake. New trees have been planted with funds from the Woodland Grant Scheme to help develop the Forest of Avon in South Gloucestershire.
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