Spanning approximately 20 hectares, this site has been historically managed as a mix of pastoral grassland and Christmas tree plantation, nestled within a wider rural landscape of pasture, woodland belts and reservoirs. With the West Pennine Moors just to the north, it has real ecological potential that GEDG is now unlocking.

Higher Wilson Fold Farm is registered as a BNG habitat bank under Bolton Council, sitting across two Natural Character Areas, 56 – Lancashire Coal Measures and 36 – Southern Pennines. The project will deliver meaningful biodiversity gains across grassland, woodland, scrub, wetland and hedgerow habitats, transforming a commercially managed site into a nature-rich landscape for the long term.

Unit Availability

The bank is fully registered and trading, with units available across habitat, hedgerow and watercourse types.

Habitat & Watercourse Units:

Other Neutral Grassland – 95.81

Mixed Scrub – 14.48

Woodland – 8.10

Ponds – 2.18

Rural Trees – 0.97

Ditches – 0.75

Hedgerow Units:

Species-rich Native Hedgerow – 7.90

Species-rich Native Hedgerow with Trees – 3.32

Native Hedgerow with Trees with Bank or Ditch – 3.57

Species-rich Native Hedgerow with Bank or Ditch – 1.52

Line of Trees with Bank or Ditch – 0.38

Location Details

LPA: Bolton Council

NCA: 56 Lancashire Coal Measures / 36 Southern Pennines

Nearest Postcode: BL6 4LH

Grid Reference: SD 66442 10445