Barlow Burn features a mix of habitats including grassland, woodland and wetland. Visit to enjoy a diverse range of wildflowers, butterflies and breeding birds.

One of the country's most important disused quarry habitats for wildlife. Bishop Middleham Quarry is a stunning wild space, rich in wildflowers that favour magnesian limestone grasslands.

Located on the Durham Heritage Coast, this area features geological exposures and internationally important grassland communities, which combine to produce a site with a unique character.

This wild space supports a mosaic of habitats on land restored from old colliery works. At a junction between pastoral farmland, residential housing, and the adjoining Chopwell Woods, this Local…

A small heathland and wet grassland site important for rare butterflies and reptiles

A restored sand quarry, this site hosts a rich mosaic of habitats, and forms part of a wider ecological landscape with the nearby Durham Wildlife Trust nature reserve, Barlow Burn.

The reserve comprises a series of species rich grasslands with small ponds, secondary woodland and scrub habitats.

One of the most extensive areas of primary Magnesian Limestone grassland in Britain contained within a unique post-glacial landform