The route crosses the farm through many types of landscapes including open pasture, orchards, streams, a valley, woodland and our 12-acre wildlife site.
The nature trail is free to visitors and an updated leaflet is available at the farm shop to help you follow the route. The leaflet highlights points of interest and things to look out for on your walk.
The complete walk is a circular route and takes approximately an hour.
The walk is relatively easy and mainly grass, but can be wet. There are no stiles, but some steps and slopes may be slippery. You use this walk at your own risk, and we advise avoiding it in windy weather as it passes through old woodland.
Our free trail leaflet (available from the shop) shows the route with numbered waymark points. Waymark posts along the walk match the leaflet so you can easily navigate.
The leaflet also shares more about the wildlife and interesting features you can expect to see as you walk.
Now if you are very lucky you might see two very special ponies on your walk. These ponies look after our wildlife site
as they prefer rougher grazing and leave the wildflowers untouched.
They are called Duncan and Taboo, and they are Exmoor ponies — considered Britain’s oldest pure breed. Hardy, “free-living” and endangered, fewer than 1,000 remain worldwide.
They have nearly 20 acres to roam: 11 acres of Shropshire Wildlife Trust land plus scrub, woodland and pasture. They help sustain diversity by browsing without damaging the flowers. Their water comes from a stream and they have plenty of shelter and shade.
