BET’s Nature Reserves

Our two reserves are the 10-acre Jubilee Stone Wood and the 12-acre Badgers Wood. Both reserves are located to the south-east of Backwell, high up on Backwell Hill and offer free access to the whole community. There are sections of level, wheel-chair friendly paths in both reserves leading to magnificent viewpoints taking in the Bristol Channel, Wales and Exmoor on clear days.

They serve as public amenity woodlands, an educational resource as well as being a superb location for wildlife. Together the two nature reserves cover almost 22 acres in area and are a mixture of broadleaf woodland interspaced with open areas of calcarious grassland.

The reserves have an amazing archaeological history and contain the ruins of a 14th century rabbit warren and cottage, 17th century lead mines, a (now restored) 19th century limekiln and a Limestone Pavement geological feature.