Malton
A reclaimed colliery site with a wide variety of habitats
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Open at all timesBest time to visit
June to AugustAbout the reserve
Although relatively small in size, Malton has a wide variety of habitats, including oak woodland, mature hedgerows, ponds, meadows and scrub.
You would never know it, but Malton is a former colliery site where even the remaining colliery shale provides habitat for lichens and insects.
The reserve’s ponds attract an array of wildlife from the unusual bulrush wainscot moth that lives in the stems of reed mace to great crested newts and dragonflies.