Spion Kop Quarry

Spion Kop Quarry (grid reference SO598103) is a 0.7-hectare (1.7-acre) nature reserve in Gloucestershire in the Forest of Dean.

[1] The site is managed by the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust and held under agreement with the Forestry Commission.

[2] The site is on Purples Hill and about one and a half miles to the east of Coleford.

They include maidenhair spleenwort, lady-fern, scaly male-fern, western polypody and hard fern.

Scrub includes holly, gorse bushes, rowan, birch, goat willow, hawthorn and elder.

[1] There is a publication which details places to visit for recreation, and for observing particular wildlife in this part of the Forest of Dean.