Epworth Turbay
One of the few relicts of raised bog in the whole of the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust’s area, Epworth Turbayis of considerable historic and scientific interest. The area has been extensively dug for peat in the past but areas of active Sphagnum bog still exist. There are also areas of reed swamp and mixed fen vegetation, where the rare fen sedge, Cladium mariscus, which was once widely used for ridge thatching, can be seen.
Plants in the fen areas include yellow and purple-loosestrife, meadow-rue, sneezewort and devil’s-bit scabious. Among moths the wood tiger is well established. Breeding birds include tree pipit, warblers, finches, green and great spotted woodpeckers and woodcock.
For information on this and other bogs in the area visit the website of Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust