The Hay Nook

Maltby Low Common and Far Common

Seven hectares of limestone common on the south-east edge of Maltby, held by Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and carrying three different grassland types on the same site — calcareous, acid and neutral — with fen meadow in the wet hollows. Over four hundred insect species have been recorded here, and grass-of-Parnassus and common spotted orchid flower from June. A footpath links the Low Common to the adjoining Far Common, which makes a circular walk of about two miles, and Maltby Wood just over the railway line is full of woodland flowers in spring if you want to extend it. The paths are flat but genuinely waterlogged for much of the year and are no use for a wheelchair or a pushchair.