Skipwith Common Bomb Bay Route
A short film about wheelchair access at Skipwith Common National Nature Reserve on the Bomb Bay Route.
The Nature of Flight
Working in partnership with Yorkshire Air Museum, based at Elvington near York, Natural England has produced a short dvd to be shown at the museum in a Nature of Flight display. Skipwith Common NNR has a long and fascinating history of human activity, from prehistoric times through hosting a WW2 airfield in 1939-45 to becoming our newest National Nature Reserve. Using archive footage and interviews, interspersed with beautiful film of the Common, the film reveals how nature is reclaiming Skipwith Common and turning it from a place of warfare into a peaceful haven for visitors and a refuge for rare species such as the nocturnal flying nightjar and the insectivorous sundew. Brick bomb bays are now home to adders and grass snakes and bomb shelters and runways are slowly disappearing beneath a cloak of vegetation. Nature has become a living testament and fitting memorial to all those who served and died there during WW2.
Skipwith Common is England’s newest National Nature reserve, occupying 274 hectares within the Eskrick Park Estate close to Selby in North Yorkshire. It can be accessed by car or public transport.
By train: the nearest stations to Skipwith are Wressle and Selby.
By bus : Bus services to and from Skipwith are provided by East Yorkshire Motor Service and York Pulman Bus Company.
By car: There are three main access points to the reserve: Riccall village along King Rudding Lane, Skipwith village along Common Lane, Barlby (A163 Market Weighton Road, then up Cornelius causeway).
There is a car park with two designated disabled parking bays in the site.
An early morning Heathland walk.
Exploring a new place, 'Skipwith Common'. Looking for it's resident Fallow deer and other wildlife, familiarising myself with the place, ready for a longer visit.
Skipwith Common Reseve is one of the last remaining areas of northern lowland heath in England.
Thanks for watching.
Steve.
Spring at Skipwth Common
A short film about wheelchair access at Skipwith Common National Nature Reserve.
The Yorkshire Nature Triangle
The Yorkshire Nature Triangle, and Yorkshire Wildlife Trust's brand new wildlife-friendly Puffin Mark accreditation scheme. A new nature tourism initiative in partnership with other local conservation organisations.
The Nature Triangle in eastern Yorkshire is well known among local naturalists for its rich fauna and flora, but it's a hidden secret for a wider audience increasingly keen to see more of Britain's spectacular wildlife. We have an amazing and diverse range of fascinating animals and plants in lowland UK and in the species rich seas that surround it.
A short film presented by Martin Batt, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust's Nature Tourism Manager, explaining why your business could benefit from the Yorkshire Nature Triangle, and the thousands of visitors coming to see nature in eastern Yorkshire.
Dunnington
For other places with the same name, see Dunnington.
Dunnington is a village and civil parish in the City of York and ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. The population of the civil parish was 3,230 at the 2011 Census. The village is approximately 4 miles east from York city centre.
Dunnington village was an Anglo-Saxon settlement, and was listed in the 1086 Domesday Book as 'Donniton', which, according to Mills, translates as an 'estate associated with a man called Duna'. The fields around the village became the country's major area for growing chicory.
Between 1913 and 1926 Dunnington was served by passenger trains on the Derwent Valley Light Railway, and the remaining goods-only railway was withdrawn in stages following the Beeching Axe. Steam trains ran to Dunnington on this line between 1977 and 1979, but following the closure of a crop drying facility the last tracks covering the route to York via Murton and Osbaldwick were lifted.
In 2006 Dunnington published a Village Design Statement as part of a national scheme introduced by the Countryside Commission in 1996. This describes the history, visual characteristics and local setting of the village and surrounding landscape. The VDS forms part of the Parish Plan.
Dunnington was the category winner in the small town category of the 2014 Britain in Bloom competition.
The original Victorian village school was demolished, but a doctors' surgery building that sits on the site was built using a complementary construction style and reclaimed materials.
The village has an historic centre, part of which is a conservation area.
According to the 2001 Census, the parish had a population of 3,194. Before 1996 it had been part of the Selby district, and before 1974 the East Riding of Yorkshire.
Dunnington is connected to York by the A1079 York to Hull, and the A166 York to Bridlington roads. The village is on the FirstGroup bus company's number 10 route through York.
A monthly magazine for the village and neighbouring communities, The Grapevine, is published by the local church, and contains news from village organisations and feature articles.
Recreational areas within or around Dunnington are Hagg Wood, Hassacarr Nature Reserve, and a park. Hassacarr Nature Reserve has attracted some 5,000 visitors over the past 20 years, and has recently been awarded Local Nature Reserve status.
Dunnington has two public houses the Cross Keys and The Windmill, though Dunnington Sports Club is also open as a bar, a library, a doctors' surgery, and a reading room at the Village Hall. The village school is Dunnington C of E Primary School.
Churches include those for Methodists, Protestants and Anglicans. The Grade: II* listed Church of England parish church is dedicated to St Nicholas, and dates in part from the late 11th century with later additions and alterations to the 19th, when it was rebuilt by C. Hodgson Fowler.
Village sport facilities include those for bowls, cricket, football, tennis, squash, and ladies hockey. There is also a gymnasium.
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Grass snake in Yorkshire
Grass snake released as part of a mitigation project at a site in Yorkshire
Ideas Sunday - February 10, 2019
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