Magnolia Nature Reserve

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This former brickworks on the border between Ashingdon and Hawkwell has developed into an attractive nature park with a variety of habitats, alongside relics of its industrial past. It has flower-rich meadows, marshy areas, a long pond, patches of scrub and a patch of light woodland, mainly hawthorn.

It is particularly good for birds, with greatest numbers in the breeding season but in winter it often attracts bullfinches, which are increasingly scarce elsewhere. .