Dendles Wood National Nature Reserve, Cornwood, Dartmoor National Park
This is one of Dartmoor's National Nature Reserves. However, you need a permit to visit the site. An information board on site reads:
'This wood is an example of old wood pasture. Oak and beech are the dominant tree species some beech trees being over 300 years old. The woodland supports a rich diversity of lichens, mosses and fungi as well as the nationally rare blue ground beetle, Barbastelle bat and birds such as pied flycatcher, redstart and wood warbler.
The Reserve is being managed by minimum intervention in order to study the long-term interaction between oak and beech. Fenced enclosures and permanent recording transects have been established to record these changes.
For legal reasons access to the Reserve is by permit only. These are available from:
Natural England
Yarner Wood Office
Bovey Tracey
Devon TQ13 9LJ.'
We've positioned Dendles Wood National Nature Reserve on Google maps so zoom in on the 'Satellite' setting to see its location.
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