22-647: Gordano may refer to: Gordano Valley in Somerset, England Gordano Round , a long-distance trail in the Gordano Valley Gordano Messaging Suite , a brand of e-mail server Gordano School , a secondary school in Portishead, Somerset Gordano services , a motorway service station on the edge of the Gordano Valley Topics referred to by
44-490: A 12-acre neglected former sports facility transformed into a wildlife haven of wildflower meadows, native woodland, hedgerows and ponds in time for Bristol as European Green Capital 2015 . Once open, the plan is to use the new Bennett's Patch and White's Paddock Reserve to encourage people to create new homes for wildlife in their own gardens. The Nature Reserves include: (* = Reserves designated as Sites of Special Scientific Interest ) Avon Wildlife Trust also run Grow Wilder
66-468: A network of staff and over 500 volunteers. The first development following the formation of the trust in 1980 was the establishment of England's first urban nature reserve at Brandon Hill , bringing hay meadows, wildlife ponds and butterfly gardens into a formal city park. In 1981 Stockwood Open Space came under the trust's management to encourage a range of wildlife and have been particularly successful with common spotted orchids . Other early work in
88-516: A rich flora which includes three nationally scarce species: Water Parsnip (Sium latafolium) , Whorled Water Milfoil (Myriophyllum verticillatum) and Fen Pondweed (Potamogeton coloratus) . The site is now connected to the Severn Estuary by the Portbury Ashlands nature reserve. Avon Wildlife Trust The Avon Wildlife Trust aims to protect and promote wildlife in the area of
110-556: A total of 7 square kilometres (3 sq mi) including 12 Sites of Special Scientific Interest . The trust also provides advice to local authorities and landowners on land management and conservation, and provides educational visits for school children and lifelong learning for adults. The Avon Wildlife Trust is part of the Wildlife Trusts partnership of 46 wildlife trusts in the United Kingdom, and carries out its work through
132-426: A variety of ways for people to get active in their own neighbourhoods through talks, walks, and events, including wildlife gardening workshops and practical volunteering work. At its Portbury reserve, nearby residents pay a levy of £70 a year to the trust for the reserve's upkeep; this has generated some criticisms over the trust's transparency, with some residents saying that the trust has not told them what it spends
154-545: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Gordano Valley Gordano (or the Gordano Valley ; / ɡ ɔːr ˈ d eɪ n oʊ / ) is an area of North Somerset , in England. It has been designated as a National Nature Reserve . The name Gordano comes from Old English and is descriptive of the triangular shape of the whole valley from Clevedon to Portishead, being
176-525: Is integrated with social, cultural and economic activities". Each winter since 2000/2001 the trust has organised a birdwatch. Between 2000 and 2007 this demonstrated falls in the starling and sparrow populations, with great spotted woodpeckers and jackdaws on the increase within the area. In 2008 a successful bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund resulted in an award of £396,000 for the new 'Wildlife – it's all about us!' project which will offer
198-593: The ablative singular of the Latinised form of Gorden meaning muddy valley . The valley runs roughly north-east to south-west, between Carboniferous limestone ridges extending along the coastline between Clevedon and Portishead , and another ridge extending between Clevedon and Easton in Gordano . The area includes the villages of Clapton in Gordano , Weston in Gordano , Easton in Gordano , Walton in Gordano , Portbury and Sheepway . The M5 motorway runs along
220-763: The 1980s included taking over the management of Littleton Brick Pits near Littleton-upon-Severn , an artificial lagoon once the site of clay extraction for brick making, and reintroducing reedbeds close to the Severn Estuary , as a feeding and resting place for migrating birds. Since the 1980s the trust has campaigned to save wetlands in the Gordano Valley in North Somerset where Clapton Moor (40 hectares of grassland) near Clapton in Gordano , Weston Big Wood , (38 hectares of ancient woodland), and Weston Moor (59 hectares of wet grassland) near Weston in Gordano and Walton Common north east of Walton in Gordano are now rich in birdlife. The installation of sluice gates in
242-496: The 1990s raised the water levels and encouraged lapwing to breed. At Dolebury Warren Iron Age hillfort , special grassland and rare butterflies have been encouraged by the trust's scrub clearance work. In 1987 the 250-acre (1.0 km ) Folly Farm was purchased from the Strachey family to be developed as a nature reserve with traditional farm operations. The purchase was made possible by an anonymous donation of £250,000, which
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#1732845158969264-558: The area as " rhynes "). The rhynes previously managed by the now amalgamated Gordano Valley Internal Drainage Board are now the responsibility of the North Somerset Internal Drainage Board. An area comprising a total of 161.68 hectares (399.5 acres) has been designated as a biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest , for ornithological, entomological and stratigraphic interest, notification originally having taken place in 1971. Several sites in
286-719: The extension of the quarry next to Ashton Court . In 1997 the trust bought Puxton Moor to prevent it being converted into a golf course and holiday resort. Other campaign have included preserving breeding space for skylarks at Hengrove Park. The oldest greater horseshoe bat ever recorded in Britain, "Boris", was discovered at Brown's Folly in January 2000. The mines themselves are of great speleological and historical interest. They are extremely well decorated and contain many delicate stalactites and examples of gull formation (caves features formed by landslippage). The mine provided stone for
308-409: The facade of Buckingham palace. In 2000 access was unilaterally withdrawn pending the results of a mine inspectors report on the safety of the mines. This report was required because of the health and safety at work act which affects employees/volunteers of the trust who might have to enter the mine to count the bats. These legal requirements do not affect leisure access by cavers. Prior to 2000 access to
330-498: The former county of Avon – now Bath and North East Somerset , Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire , in England. It has its headquarters in Bristol and runs wildlife centres at Folly Farm, Somerset and Grow Wilder, Frenchay, North Bristol. The trust was formed in 1980, has 17,500 members, and manages 35 nature reserves, ranging from salt marshes and reedbeds to wildflower meadows and ancient woodlands , covering
352-655: The mine was controlled by the CSCC and cavers had coexisted with a thriving bat population with voluntary restrictions on the access during the bat roosting season. There is no evidence of caving activity adversely affecting the bat population. Since 2000 the trust has been a leading partner in the Avon Biodiversity Partnership which aims to create "A landscape rich in wildlife, where species and habitats are part of healthy, functioning ecosystems that are well-managed and valued by everyone; where conservation of biodiversity
374-581: The money on. On 25 April 2022, Avon Wildlife Trust announced the relocation of its headquarters from 32, Jacobs well road to 17, Great George Street ( 51°27′13″N 2°36′14″W / 51.45363°N 2.60375°W / 51.45363; -2.60375 ). The former headquarters was listed in June of the same year, and eventually sold at auction in February 2023 for £850,00. Avon Wildlife Trust's newest nature reserve, Bennett's Patch and White's Paddock will see
396-410: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Gordano . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gordano&oldid=973528643 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
418-524: The south side of the valley, splitting briefly into two levels - the south-west-bound level running above the north-east-bound carriageway. The Gordano motorway service station is at the eastern end of the valley, near the Royal Portbury Dock and the Avonmouth Bridge . There is no river Gordano - much of the valley is reclaimed land barely above sea level, and it is drained by ditches (known in
440-829: The valley are managed by the Avon Wildlife Trust as nature reserves. These include; Weston Big Wood , Clapton Moor , Weston Moor and Walton Common . The unimproved wet-meadow communities largely consist of variants of the nationally rare Blunt-flowered Rush–Marsh Thistle ( Juncus subnodulosus–Cirsium palustre ) , Soft/Sharp Flowered Rush–Marsh Bedstraw (Juncus effusus/acutiflorus–Galium palustre) , Purple Moorgrass–Meadow Thistle (Molinia caerulea–Cirsium dissectum) and Crested Dog’s-tail–Common Knapweed )Cynosurus cristatus–Centaurea nigra) community types. In total over 130 species of flowering plant have been recorded including 3 species of orchids, 21 grasses and 14 sedges. The extensive system of rhynes and field ditches contains
462-551: Was followed by grants and donations from the South West of England Regional Development Agency , and Biffaward supplementing local fund-raising efforts with the centre finally opening in April 2008. The trust was one of the first to carry out garden wildlife surveys. One of these revealed the astonishingly rich flora that existed in Narroways, St Werburghs , an inner area of Bristol, and
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#1732845158969484-454: Was used as part of a campaign against the use of 5 acres (20,000 m ) of the hill as a storage depot for heavy equipment and lorry access for construction of the Avon Tramway. In 1991 campaigns to save Royate Hill in Bristol from development resulted in the first compulsory purchase of a wildlife site in England. In another Bristol campaign, the trust fought Bristol City Council against
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