Churchtown Farm Community nature reserve Saltash

Churchtown Farm Community Nature Reserve is a community project run by the Cornwall Wildlife Trust, located on the southern edge of Saltash. The project aims to encourage people to get involved in looking after and enjoying the reserve in all kinds of different ways.

Whether you’re a daily dog walker or a first-time visitor there are plenty of opportunities for you to get involved. What’s your passion? The chances are it could link in to Churchtown Farm - to help people learn about nature, to make the reserve more beautiful or to help conserve wildlife. Getting to grips with a spade and coming home muddy after a hard day's practical conservation work is not everybody’s cup of tea.

Field trip to Churchtown Farm

Friends of Churchtown Farm Community Nature Reserve

Friends of Churchtown Farm are an independent group through which local people are guiding the development of the site and contributing to practical tasks, guided walks, wildlife monitoring, wardening and all manner of other areas of the reserves life. Just joining this group will show your support for the Nature Reserve, and will keep you informed on the latest developments. There is a small subscription to join each year.

Eyes and Ears

Churchtown Farm is for everybody to share with nature, as long as they are happy to stay within the visitor guidelines, but unfortunately not everybody who visits Churchtown Farm does this. If you’re a regular walker on the reserve and you see somebody abusing the site, or you know somebody who does, please report the abuse to the warden.

Voluntary Wardens

Churchtown Farm is patrolled by Voluntary Wardens. If you’re a regular walker up there and would like to get more involved in looking after the site, then perhaps you could become a warden? Wardens need good people skills for talking to visitors and may get involved in other things like wildlife monitoring or practical work.

Rocky Shoreline

Monitoring and recording

We would always like to hear about any wildlife sightings you’ve had at Churchtown Farm. If you’d like to get involved in wildlife surveying, for education projects or for your own interest, get in touch – you could maybe adopt a field to monitor!

Wildlife recording forms

Peacock butterfly photograph by Leon Truscott

Nature trails

There is access over much of the reserve and particular walks and trails have now been established. The challenges to the visitor vary depending on the route chosen, and there is a route accessible to wheelchair users.

Nature trails

Schools and young people

We encourage people to use the Nature Reserve for educational purposes. If you’re a teacher or work with groups of young people, or are a young person yourself and would like your group to visit the reserve please get in touch. We should be able you make the most of your visit.

Curlew. in flight photograph by J.B & S Bottomley

Other items that may be of interest:

• More information on the background of the project
• General information about this reserve

Cornwall Wildlife Trust Nature Reserves

List of reserves ... Armstrong Woods Bakers Pit Beales Meadow Bissoe Valley Bosvenning Common Cabilla and Redrice Woods Caer Brân Carn Moor Chûn Downs Churchtown Farm Chyverton Devichoys Wood Downhill Meadow Fal-Ruan Estuary Five Acres Fox Corner Greena Moor Halbullock Hawkes Wood Helman Tor Kemyel Crease Kennall Vale Lanvean Bottoms Loggan's Moor Loveny Lower Lewdon Luckett Maer Lake Nansmellyn Marsh North Predannack Downs Park Hoskyn Pendarves Wood Penlee Battery Phillips's Point Priddacombe Downs Prideaux Wood Quoit Heathland Redlake Cottage Meadows Ropehaven Cliffs Rosenannon Downs St Erth Pits St George's Island Swanvale Sylvia's Meadow Tamar Estuary Tincombe Trebarwith Tresayes Tywardreath Marsh Upton Meadow Upton Towans Ventongimps Moor Welcombe & Marsland Windmill Farm

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