What to See in Sandhurst - Top Sights and Attractions

Wildmoor Heath is a 91-hectare nature reserve south of Crowthorne in Berkshire. It is managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust. The reserve is part of two Sites of Special Scientific Interest: Wildmoor Heath itself is part of Sandhurst to Owlsmoor Bogs and Heaths and a separate area called Broadmoor Bottom is part of Broadmoor to Bagshot Woods and Heaths.

This sloping site has wet and dry heath and woodland. There are also areas of bog which are grazed by Dexter cattle to keep down the growth of coarse purple moor-grass; twenty species of damselfly and dragonfly have been recorded in the bogs and plants include bog asphodel, butterwort, round-leaved sundew and white beaked-sedge.^[1]

Blackwater Valley is a 33.9-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest between Sandhurst in Berkshire and Blackwater in Hampshire.

The River Blackwater runs through the site, which also has wet valley alder wood, swamp and alluvial meadows. The meadows have several species of flora associated with ancient grassland and they are a nationally rare and threatened habitat. An area of deciduous woodland has the rare sedge, Carex elongata.

The Blackwater Valley Path runs through the site and part of it is the Shepherd Meadows nature reserve, which is open to the public.^[2]

Nature reserve in Crowthorne, England. Edgbarrow Woods is a 36.8-hectare Local Nature Reserve on the northern outskirts of Sandhurst in Berkshire. It is owned and managed by Wellington College.^[3]

Sandhurst to Owlsmoor Bogs and Heaths is an 85.8-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the northern outskirts of Sandhurst in Berkshire. Part of the SSSI is Wildmoor Heath nature reserve, which is managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust. and the SSSI is part of Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area.^[4]