Cabilla and Redrice Woods is a nature reserve of the

Cornwall Wildlife Trust The Cornwall Wildlife Trust (founded as the Cornwall Naturalists' Club) is a charitable organisation founded in 1962 that is concerned solely with Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It deals with the conservation and preservation of Cornwall's w ...

, about east of

Bodmin Bodmin () is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated south-west of Bodmin Moor. The extent of the civil parish corresponds fairly closely to that of the town so is mostly urban in character. It is bordered ...

, in

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, England. It is an extensive area of mixed woodland.

Description

The area of the reserve is . There is a walking trail that takes in various features of the woodland. It includes some steep inclines."Cabilla and Redrice Woods"
''Cornwall Wildlife Trust''. Retrieved 14 January 2021. Features in Cabilla Wood include centuries-old

coppiced Coppicing is the traditional method in woodland management of cutting down a tree to a stump, which in many species encourages new shoots to grow from the stump or roots, thus ultimately regrowing the tree. A forest or grove that has been su ...

woodland, where species have evolved life cycles dependent on coppicing; a pond, habitat of amphibians,

dragonflies A dragonfly is a flying insect belonging to the infraorder Anisoptera below the order Odonata. About 3,000 extant species of dragonflies are known. Most are tropical, with fewer species in temperate regions. Loss of wetland habitat threate ...

and other insects; a large

adit An adit (from Latin ''aditus'', entrance) or stulm is a horizontal or nearly horizontal passage to an underground mine. Miners can use adits for access, drainage, ventilation, and extracting minerals at the lowest convenient level. Adits are a ...

of a disused mine, home of the greater and lesser

horseshoe bat Horseshoe bats are bats in the family Rhinolophidae. In addition to the single living genus, ''Rhinolophus'', which has about 106 species, the extinct genus '' Palaeonycteris'' has been recognized. Horseshoe bats are closely related to the Ol ...

; an

alder Alders are trees of the genus ''Alnus'' in the birch family Betulaceae. The genus includes about 35 species of monoecious trees and shrubs, a few reaching a large size, distributed throughout the north temperate zone with a few species ex ...

coppice; and a building of East Wheal Jane, a former lead and silver mine."Cabilla and Redrice Woods nature trail"
Leaflet of ''Cornwall Wildlife Trust''. Retrieved 14 January 2021. Redrice Wood, east of Cabilla Wood across a stream, consists mostly of

sessile oak ''Quercus petraea'', commonly known as the sessile oak, Welsh oak, Cornish oak, Irish oak or durmast oak, is a species of oak tree native to most of Europe and into Anatolia and Iran. The sessile oak is the national tree of Ireland, and an unof ...

coppice. There are charcoal burning platforms where, from medieval times to the late 18th century, coppiced oak was converted to charcoal. There is an oak plantation of timber trees. The blue ground beetle, found in few places in Britain, is seen in Redrice Wood.

References

{{Reflist Nature reserves of the Cornwall Wildlife Trust Forests and woodlands of Cornwall Ancient woods in England