Blainscough Wood Nature Reserve
Location
Main entrance - Blainscough Road, off Springfield Road, Coppull, PR7 5HD.
Entrance 2 - Mountain Road, Coppull, PR7 5EL.
Parking
This site is located within a residential area and has no dedicated parking. Please avoid parking in front of residents properties.
About the area
This is a small nature reserve created on a former agricultural and coal mining site. Following the end of coal mining activities, the site remained derelict and unsafe for a considerable length of time. Reclamation works undertaken by us between 1990 and 1993 made the site safe and established the nature reserve. Since then we have managed the reserve and works have included annual late summer cut of wildflower meadow, footpath improvements, maintenance of signs and way markers and creation of a pond.