The Avalon Marshes is famous for its winter starling murmurations, but in spring and summer look out for our largest resident birds: Bittern, Marsh Harrier and Great White Egret – our ‘Big Three’ – regularly seen on our reserves they cannot fail to impress!
Nature Reserves, fascinating heritage, Glastonbury Tor, museums, attractive villages, footpaths, cycle routes, kids’ stuff and lots more. Come and explore Somerset’s Avalon Marshes.
The Avalon Marshes is a landscape of rich resources, not of coal and iron but of food, peat and water. These give the marshes their special character and have left a wonderful legacy of history and archaeology.
The Avalon Marshes is a very special place to see and enjoy wildlife whatever time of year you visit. There are four National Nature Reserves and lots of other areas teeming with wetland wildlife.
Somerset Arts Weeks Festival 2017 is the unique celebration of visual arts in Somerset. At the Avalon Marshes Centre Somerset Crafts will have art & craft works on display and for sale include ceramics, glass, jewellery, mosaics, paintings, photography, sculpture,… Read more…
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Shapwick Heath is famous for the ‘Sweet Track’ which is Europe’s oldest manmade walkway and a scheduled ancient monument. Take a tour with reserve staff to discover how neolithic man survived the wild marshes, join in the discussion with our… Read more…
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A film about loss and return in the wetlands of the Somerset Levels and Moors; screened in South-West Heritage Trust’s Romano-British villa reconstruction, set within the archetypal landscape that inspired it… Sean Harris’ film, projected through layers of gauze within… Read more…
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