Lightshaw Meadows
Rare birds are flourishing and vital habitats being restored at this peaceful wetland nature reserve.
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Summer Meadows
Whether it is a blaze of yellow from meadow buttercups, the spikes of green-winged and early orchid, or the nodding, papery petals of snake’s head fritillary – Britain’s wild meadows hum with life from the first spring bloom to the purple hues of autumn’s meadow saffron.
Educational Visits at Lunt Meadows Nature Reserve
Lunt Meadows Nature Reserve is an incredible wetland reserve with a stone age past making it the perfect place to have an educational visit with your schools, colleges and universities to discover more.
Common evening-primrose
An introduced species, Common evening-primrose is now naturalised on waste ground, roadside verges and railway cuttings. It has long been used to produce the herbal remedy, evening-primrose oil.…
Spring at Lunt Meadows
Our trainee, Emma talks about the changes that spring brings to Lunt Meadows Nature Reserve and how the abundance of growth and new life would have been important to our Mesolithic predecessors.…
Lunt Meadows
No matter the time of year, Lunt Meadows Nature Reserve is brimming with brilliant birdlife, as well as being a fascinating Mesolithic archaeological site.
Conferences and Events at Lunt Meadows
Welcome to Lunt Meadows, a spectacular wetland nature reserve nestled along the River Alt in North Merseyside, a real destination for bird-lovers and land animals alike. As well as being a nature reserve, Lunt Meadows is a fascinating archaeological site home to one of just a few surviving Mesolithic settlements.
School Grounds: Wildflower Meadows
Wildflower meadows not only look beautiful, but they also provide habitats for a broad mix of species.
Why Does Lunt Meadows Flood?
Lunt Meadows is best known as a wetland nature reserve, but it has another extremely important function: to protect nearby communities from the devasting effects of flooding.
Accessible path opens at Lunt Meadows
A new path has been constructed at Lunt Meadows Nature Reserve.
Wild improvements on the way at Lunt Meadows
Thanks to generous funding from Biffa Award, we're on track to make our Lunt Meadows nature reserve even better for people and wildlife in 2021.