WildNet - Kieron Huston
Bradlaugh Fields
Location
Northampton
Northamptonshire
OS Map Reference
SP 765 639
Know before you go
Dogs
When to visit
Opening times
Open at all timesBest time to visit
May to SeptemberAbout the reserve
These three meadow areas, close to Northampton town centre, are part of the larger Bradlaugh Fields Park complex.
The reserve contains fine examples of unimproved, semi-natural limestone grassland and fragments of ancient hedgerow. Plants typical of calcareous grassland are found here, including yellow-rattle, knapweeds, lady's bedstraw, red bartsia and bird's-foot trefoil.
If you are lucky and visit at dawn or dusk foxes and badgers are commonly spotted around the Bradlaugh Fields complex.
Additional information
- Scroll down to see the reserve boundary. Please note the boundary map is for indication purposes only and does not show the Wildlife Trusts definitive land boundary.
FOR ANY MEDIA ENQUIRIES PLEASE CONTACT OUR COMMUNICATIONS TEAM: communicationsteam@wildlifebcn.org or 01954 713500 and ask for comms team.
Species
- European badger
- Field vole
- Red fox
- Blue tit
- Chaffinch
- Chiffchaff
- Fieldfare
- Kestrel
- Great spotted woodpecker
- Green woodpecker
- Long-tailed tit
- Sparrowhawk
- Willow warbler
- Marbled white
- Yellow meadow ant
- Adder's-tongue fern
- Bee orchid
- Common bird's-foot-trefoil
- Common spotted-orchid
- Salad burnet
- Red bartsia
- Common twayblade
- Yellow-rattle
- Bullfinch
- Greater knapweed
Habitat
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Environmental designation
Location map
Betony at Upwood Meadows June - c. Robert Enderby
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