A beautiful find, a great place to wander round, lots of history if you look but most importantly British nature at its best. My wife had her bird sound app on, this helped us find some previously unseen birds, we were lucky to see three deer moving across open ground during our visit and will hopefully be back for another helping soon. Note to people visiting, the Home Wood lower path is currently closed, however you can divert (if walking counter clockwise) to the south of the Nature reserve and walk along Limekiln Road, re entering the reserve about 1/4mile to the east of where you joined the road, there is an info board where you re enter.

Beautiful walk and well signposted for each route. Parking is limited so best to plan around less busier times.

Love the reserve, first time here but won't be the last. Parking is the only issue with this place and you need to look out for the turning because it's not signposted. Watch out carefully when pulling out of either end of lane because it's not easy to see oncoming traffic. As the other reviews what's not to love, amazing place of peace and tranquility, my dog was in heaven with all the fauna and trees then with the water she had the best of times. I will explore further next time and edit review positively I'm sure. Very dog friendly and most owners pick up after their dog which is nice also never saw much litter which is so pleasing to see.

We spent a wonderful three hours exploring the woods with friends. Waterfalls, bridges, historic buildings and a river to paddle in - what more could you ask for.

Spent a lovely few hours here this afternoon. We parked just outside The Old Chapel and as mentioned in a previous comment the road is very misleading. If I wasn't following the sat nav I totally would of missed the turning down the lane. It was a very interesting walk with various trails to follow, the waterfall and The Keepers House, also, there's a spot with benches so we could have a sit down and our children could have a picnic. We followed one path down to an area with a few shallow pools which the kids loved having a paddle in, BUT BEWARE. As I sat there I thought 'Oo, there's a marble in the ground?...' But as I started to scratch away at it with a bit of twig, we came to find out it was a broken bottom of a wine or beer bottle (see pictures). I would of unearthed and removed it but it was so ground in, if I'd of had a spade it would of made it easier. So watch out, it wouldn't be nice if a paw or bare foot came into contact with it