The alluring Alverstone Mead sits within the Isle of Wight National Landscape and consists of four reserves - Alverstone Mead, Bensteads Marsh, Youngwoods Copse and Bretts Meadow.

Saved from development in the 1980s, Ancells Farm is an important site for its heathland and bog plants, such as bog asphodel and bog pimpernel. The grassland, fen and rush pasture meadows…

Enjoy magnificent views over the Eastern Yar Valley in this exceptionally rich chalk grassland reserve, brimming with a huge variety of plants and insects.

A small but tranquil ancient woodland

Created from flooded gravel pits, Blashford Lakes is now a bustling centre of activity, used by thousands of birds all year round including kingfisher, lapwing and oystercatcher.

The reserve, once connected to the New Forest, offers an incredible range of habitats, from wet woodland, wood pasture and grassland to heathland, bog and mire.

Farlington Marshes, one of the Trust’s oldest nature reserves, is a coastal wildlife expanse with internationally important populations of wading birds and wildfowl.

A spectacular wetland and a birder’s paradise

Flexford nature reserve is an urban oasis in the heart of Chandler’s Ford. Much loved by local people, it has an interesting mix of woodland and flower-rich wet meadows that support a variety of…

An exquisite combination of spring-fed fen and wet woodland