SOMERSET, England — Steart Marshes, in southwest England, may not be the most picturesque nature reserve in the British Isles, but it is undoubtedly one of the most fascinating. Just over a decade ago ...

but staff at the marshes said it was the first time they had been seen on the Somerset Wetlands National Nature Reserve. Natural England has asked people to not try to find the beavers as they ...

People will be able to visit the reserve, as is the case with the WWT Steart Marshes site near Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset. Kevin Peberdy, WWT's Deputy Chief Executive said: "Salt marshes support a ...

Farmers have celebrated as a “completely bonkers” plan to turn hundreds of hectares of farmland along the Severn into salt ...

When Alfred the Great was stranded in the Somerset marshes it seemed that Saxon Britain was doomed, and that Alfred’s Wessex would be the last Saxon kingdom. Instead Wessex expanded until, ...

FARMERS have celebrated as a “completely bonkers” plan to turn hundreds of hectares of farmland along the Severn into salt marshes has been ...

THE salt marshes would have transformed the countryside at places like Littleton-on-Severn, and taken away valuable farming land.  It was ...

The company building Hinkley Point C, EDF Energy, had planned to create 340 hectares of salt marsh at four villages in Somerset and Gloucestershire to compensate for the fish that would die from ...