This nature reserve was created primarily for Great Crested Newts. The site has several ponds as well as areas of meadow grassland and is surrounded by mature hedges and trees bordering onto the former Western Golf Course along its eastern side. There are mown paths through it to join a right of way which takes you across  Ratby Lane into Clanfelde Hills and on beyond into the wider countryside.

It can be accessed by a bridge over the stream and ditch which down the Optimus Greenway which itself then meets the cycleways from Ratby & Groby