The Lower Ure Conservation Trust is a charity dedicated to the restoration of once productive sand and gravel quarries to varied, wildlife-rich habitats.
We run Nosterfield Nature Reserve, near Ripon in North Yorkshire, now widely regarded as one of best examples of wetland grassland in the north of England.
All photography, unless otherwise stated, provided by Whitfield Benson.
Find out more about our work supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund to recreate precious wetland habitats.
Discover the Swale & Ure Washlands
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RT @carlinethis: Got a lot of planting done @NosterfieldLNR yesterday. About 430 of our biggest Cladium from wet beds now planted ou… https://t.co/2FhZrWqdXP
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RT @whiterosegreen: Car park verge at @NosterfieldLNR, good example of Knapweed subcommunity of False Oat grassland, coded MG1e in GB… https://t.co/SOHjchyv9V
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RT @TimScot78560883: @YWT_North @NosterfieldLNR @HanbyAndrew Lots of Swifts over the rooftops of Ripon last night,this one was over the… https://t.co/HOEJdZDHIC