Our Nature
Reserves
Visitors
are welcome at ten
Reserves.
Locations are shown on the map. The Ordnance Survey Landranger series
has been used to give the grid reference for access points. Please
respect the Countryside Code and visit at your own risk.
1
BANKHEAD MOSS
Peat Inn
NO
447 106 O.S. Sheet 59
Small remnant raised bog with surrounding mixed woodland and fen, main
interest acid bog habitat; locally uncommon bog plants in former lint
holes; orchids, sedges on fen; wildfowl, waders in winter; hide,
boardwalk.
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more
information click here
2
FIFE NESS MUIR
Crail
NO
637 097 O.S. Sheet 59
Small area of scrub and trees on most easterly point of the Fife coast;
excellent for migrant and breeding birds
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more
information click here
3
KILMINNING COAST
Crail
NO
631 087 O.S. Sheet 59
Rock pools, shingle, saltmarsh, grassland heath; Fife Coastal Path runs
through the Reserve.
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more
information click here
4
WEST QUARRY BRAES
Crail
NO
597 088 O.S. Sheet 59
Former refuse tip,transformed and revitalised by scrub and tree
planting; good for migrating birds and woodland edge species.
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more
information click here
5
BARNYARDS MARSH
Kilconquhar
NO
484 021 O.S. Sheet 59
Small fen with interesting wetland plants.
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more
information click here
6
LIELOWAN MEADOW
near Saline
NT
090 926 O.S. Sheet 58
Marsh-meadow mosaic, with rich diversity of plant and insect life.
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more
information click here
7
CULLALOE
Aberdour
NT
186 878 O.S. Sheet 65
Former reservoir for Burntisland, supporting several locally and
nationally rare plants, and a wide range of wildfowl; scrub and
grassland adjacent with a good variety of wildlife. Disabled access.
(SWT Management Agreement with Fife Council)
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more
information click here
8
CARLINGNOSE
Queensferry
NT
132 805 O.S. Sheet 65
Cliffs and rich grassland beside Fife Coastal Footpath.
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more
information click here
9
FLEECEFAULDS MEADOW
Ceres
NO
401 086 O.S. Sheet 59
A superb remnant of unimproved calcareous grassland and fen. Covers
12.5 hectares on the north-facing slope of the central "rigging of
Fife". Contains the sole surviving colony in east Fife of the beautiful
globe flower - Trollius
europaeus .
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more
information click here
10
DUMBARNIE LINKS
Largo Bay
NO
441 022 O.S. Sheet 59
A system of dunes and associated grassland at the east end of Largo
Bay. First designated as an SSSI in 1955, it is one of the most
extensive and important examples of of calcareous dune systems in the
east of Scotland.
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more
information click here
0
JOHN WIFFEN HIDE
Cameron
NO
479 114 O.S. Sheet 59
Reservoir, good for birds, especially winter geese. (SWT and SOC member
keyholders)
Unfortunately
the John Wiffen hide has had to be closed. Access to
Cameron reservoir remains as before
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