Back to nature
In more recent times, the area has been host to RAF Riccall, which played a key role in bombing missions during the Second World War, while the village of Riccall itself was part of the enormous Selby coalfield, one of the largest deep coal-mining projects ever undertaken.
Now, however, a section of this area is at last being restored to the condition in which Iron Age man would once have recognised it. Skipwith Common is helping the area to make history once again, as the site of the first new National Nature Reserve in the Yorkshire and Humber region for 11 years.
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Hide AdThese days, nature may need the help of Natural England to restore the
area to its state of lowland and wetland heath, but Skipwith Common's
huge variety of wildlife, and the visitors who will come to enjoy it, should be all the more thankful for that.