Butterfly trail

 

This circular waymarked route leads through a number of habitats including oak woodland, spruce woodland and wild flower rides. In addition to the many wild flower and butterfly species you will see wild service trees and you are likely to see deer if you are quiet. At the start of 2001 extensive management work was carried out at Bernwood. Many of the rides were widened to allow the sun to reach a greater area. We hope that the wild flowers will continue to thrive and colonise this larger area. In turn, with more wild flowers the butterfly populations will also increase. Existing areas of black thorn are also being managed and some areas have been planted with blackthorn. This prickly plant is popular with the black hairstreak butterfly, a particularly rare butterfly that is found in this wood.

How to get there:

Butterfly trail can be started from Car park in Shabbington which is part of Bernwood Forest. Oakley is the nearest town or village.

Bernwood is situated east of Oxford between Stanton St. John and Oakley. The carpark can be found at Grid reference SP 612 118.

OS Grid Reference: SP 612 118