Stapleton Mire Culm Grassland
- About this route
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Stapleton Mire is a Culm grassland, rich in nationally rare plant and insect species. Some areas are almost dominated by the nationally rare whorled caraway. The woodland here consists of wet flushes of willow and alder with drier areas containing oak and hazel. During the summer, good populations of marbled white, meadow brown, and ringlet butterflies can be seen.
- Getting Around
- Facilities
- Roadside parking, Dogs on lead.
- Terrain
- Rough, marshy trails.
- Accessibility
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