[1][2] It earned local nature reserve status in 2000 after 15 years of conservation management.
It is owned by Trustees who live in the parish and conservation work is supported by the Friends of Coppett Hill.
It is a mix of woodland and open hillside and a good site for butterflies, deer, birdlife and fungi.
Permissive paths give access to the reserve as well as offering views stretching from the Brecon Beacons and Black Mountains to the Clee Hills in Shropshire and the Malvern Hills in Worcestershire.
It opened in 1873, along with the Ross and Monmouth Railway, allowing passage from Lydbrook Junction to Kerne Bridge.