About the reserve

The reserve is made up of unimproved damp meadowland with wet heath. It is one of ten sites in the country, and the last in Cornwall, where the rare heath lobelia can be found. There is an abundance of insect life, with over 80 species of butterfly and moth recorded. It contains a well preserved ancient field system and in the 19th century, the wetlands may have well been a site used for the shooting of wildfowl