템플 그래프턴‬에서 가장 멋진 ‪5‬개의 천연기념물

wildlife can be spotted in these fields if you are quiet and patient enough, you can catch a baby deer hopping around

The Welcombe Hills and Clopton Park offer delightful walks through grassland and woodland. Woolly thistle, quaking-grass and the diminutive adder’s-tongue grow in the grasslands where ant hills created by yellow meadow ants are a distinctive feature. The woodland contains oak, horse-chestnut and beech with English elm. Birds are plentiful, with great spotted woodpecker, sparrowhawk, little owl, treecreeper and finches enjoying the woodland where ravens breed in spring. Brimstone butterflies are numerous in the spring sunshine. History of the Welcombe Hills: a Shakespearean tale The reserve may have got its name from a historic well found here with its inscription 'SJC 1686'. Margaret, daughter of William Clopton who died in 1592 supposedly drowned here. It was around this time that Shakespeare was writing his famous play, Hamlet, and its believed that this tragic event provided the inspiration for his 'Ophelia' and her lonely death.

Does what it says on the tin

Section of the epic long distance footpath. This tree is maybe old enough to have been here in Cromwell's time? Along this section, the path is paved, with cattlegrids and some gates.

Beautiful SSSI...great access...full of bluebells

Bannam's Wood is a small remnant of the ancient wildwood that was once widespread across the Midlands, but which is now very rare in Warwickshire. The woodland is a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

A section of the long distance path, based on the King's flight during the English Civil War.

Particularly picturesque tree in the middle of a blooming rapeseed field.