Different Species in the Meadows

The site consists of a mosaic of habitats from aquatic and emergent vegetation along the riversides, damp ditches, short turf grassland, rank vegetation and remnant hedgerows. Numerous willows pollards border the ditches.
This part of the website records some of the life to be found on the Hurst.

 See a photographic record of our flora and a species report.

Ox-eye daisy, Leucanthemum vulgare

See a photographic record of some of the birds found on the Hurst and a survey of birds found in the Dorchester-on-Thames area.

A visitor to the Hurst

See a photographic record of our trees.

Oak tree and spring flowers