Mining bees now use the exposed coal bank of this former colliery, bee orchids bloom in the meadow, and the lagoons are a magnet for dragonflies!

When hundreds of orchids are in bloom, the birds are singing, and the ponds are alive with dragonflies and damselflies, it’s a far cry from Ledston Luck’s industrial past.

It doesn’t have to be the Summer of Love to enjoy an explosion of flower power. Let Ledsham Bank’s vivid wildflower display blow your mind this June or July!

A gorgeously green place to stop in spring, enjoy the fragrance of wild garlic, and listen to the trickling stream and songs of woodland birds

Tree pipits and linnets sing from the trees in the young woodland at Stocksmoor Common Nature Reserve. Wavy hair-grass may be found in the acid grassland - a habitat produced by rough grazing…

With singing birds, feeding butterflies and wildflowers in bloom, a walk around this small reserve is a very pleasant way to spend a lazy hour in spring or summer.

Trains no longer stop at the station, which closed in 1965, and nature has moved back in, taking over the site of the old platform, goods shed, yard and track bed.

With a mixture of open wetland, a woodland, grassland and scrub, Carlton Marsh hosts an amazing variety of wildlife - a remarkable transformation from a polluted past.

Once an intensively grazed dairy farm, Stirley is now an inspiring showcase for conservation grazing methods and a place to enjoy nature’s sights and sounds.

Visit Upper Park Wood for fantastic panoramic views of the 'Last of the Summer Wine' countryside of the Holme Valley - a colourful mosaic of meadows, woodland and moorland, as well as a…