Brown Hairstreak butterfly has been recorded in and near to Coldwell Parrock and Gait Barrows NNR over recent years. This has generated great interest and discussion, as Tom Dunbar explains.

Anyone visiting or driving past our reserve at Coldwell Parrock can hardly have failed to notice that the Landscape Trust is currently undertaking a considerable amount of work on the trees and shrub growth around its boundaries. This article by our reserves team explains what is happening and why.

Landscape conservation has been practised in the pastures around Coldwell Farm for even longer than the AONB has existed. The Trust's latest acquisition of reserve land at Coldwell will ensure that it continues into the future.

The 1846 Yealand Township tithe map and the earlier 1778 Yealand inclosure map offer insights into the history of the Coldwell Land and its fields.

The Brown Hairstreak is not 'supposed' to be here at all!

For landscape historians old maps are like ancient parchments that can be peeled back to reveal the past. Early OS maps are a good place to start.

The new Coldwell Reserve is located on a drumlin, a relict of ice age glaciers which left here 18,000 years ago.

A geotrail links the Landscape Trust at Coldwell with neighbouring reserves and conservation friends at Natural England, the RSPB and AONB.