Our Nature Reserves Across the UK

Where We Work

Our UK rewilding sites, nature
reserves, wild spaces and some of our brilliant partners.

Make It Wild has been creating nature reserves in the United Kingdom since 2010, and there are now nineteen Make It Wild sites given over to rewilding and wildlife conservation. Our foundations are in Yorkshire, where we have reserves in the North York Moors and the Yorkshire Dales, along with sites in Nidderdale near Harrogate and others close to York. Working in partnership with landowners, we have since added reserves in Aberdeenshire, Derbyshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire and Norfolk, and over the coming years we will keep extending that reach across the country. Explore the map below for more about each reserve, or to find the one nearest to you, and hear some of our business partners describe why they chose to work with us.

Harrogate
Heather plants in front of a house

Heather Lea, North Yorkshire

Our beautiful, award-winning, eco-friendly holiday cottage adjoining Bank Woods and Dowgill Grange is ready to welcome you! It nestles in the gorgeous Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Beauty and has wonderful views.

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Wensleydale
Field

High Pasture, North Yorkshire

It is 111 acres in size, and includes some upland pasture, but is mostly moorland with the potential for peat formation. It is criss-crossed by little streams, and includes lots of interesting relief.

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Harrogate
Shot of green and yellow bushy trees from the top

Low Wood, North Yorkshire

In March 2025 we completed on the purchase of a beautiful site of 79 acres, adjoining Brimham Rocks. This site is under the joint ownership of Make it Wild and Foundation IT.

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International Projects
Mangrove trees

Mangrove planting, International

We are delighted to be working with a trusted partner to deliver an alternative to our UK based woodland creation and rewilding projects.

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Wensleydale

Priest Bank, North Yorkshire

We were delighted to take on this 32 acre site in Wensleydale, in late 2022.

This is largely traditional meadow, divided into two fields.

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Lincolnshire
Field show with bushy trees and tree saplings

Rockscape Farm, Lincolnshire

Rockscape Farm joined the Make it Wild network in 2026.

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Peak District & Surroundings

Rowan Tree Farm, Peak District

Rowan Tree Farm is one of Make it Wild‘s UK-wide network of sites. All these sites are managing their land for nature; creating and improving habitat; supporting ecological restoration and biodiversity in a variety of ways.

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York
Field with dry grass in the foreground with green trees in the background

Sandlands Woods, North Yorkshire

Sandlands Woods is located near Boroughbridge. It's a newly planted 10 acre site, with three woodland compartments at the edge of the village of Great Ouseburn.

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York
Flooding at Skip Bridge

Skipbridge Reserve, North Yorkshire

We are delighted to commence rewilding and habitat creation and restoration for biodiversity at our new site, located near Green Hammerton, just off the A59 between Harrogate and York.

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