Nature and Wildlife at Trethiggey Holiday Park in Newquay Cornwall

Here at Trethiggey we are quite passionate about all things “green” and our wildlife!

Trethiggey Holiday Parks Nature and Wildlife Gold is also highly valued… It’s the colour of the top award for conservation, given to us by Professor David Bellamy!

Trethiggey is part of the old medieval Kestle and Kestle Mill hamlets in Newquay Cornwall, England. They are situated south of Quintrell Downs; Kestle Mill is on the A3058 main winding country road, Trethiggey Holiday Park is nestled in the hamlet of Kestel Mill in beautiful countryside, so it is important for us to look after Trethiggigy and its ancient land and make it a place of interest to you, our guests. We are a green site meaning we leave our grass long for a longer period of time for the biodiversity of the land that helps the insects and pollinators which are vital to human survival upon this planet. We know that some visitors may see our long meadow grasses with buttercups and daises and think they are just uncut pitches, but when these pitches and grass land is not in use is because we leave the grass and wild flowers there for the insects and bees. We has humans are so used to seeing what we believe to be the right way to keep grass, short and perfect which is actually incorrect and bad for our natural environment and leads to dry and dead grass by the time the summer heat comes to our land and it dries out the areas and sadly the vital pollinators also die out. We need these insects and pollinators to help with our fruit trees, to help save the planet!

We leave our pitches uncut for as long as we can for the majority of the season until we need to use the land in the higher season. This allows the bees and insects to do what they do best!

You may also see uncut grass along the lanes and roads in Cornwall during the low seasons and that’s also to help in the same way. Yes it may be mildly annoying that the pathways around Cornwall are not perfect but its the countryside and its helping save our planet.

Just by doing simple things we make Trethiggey a special place and do our part to help the environment!.

• We don’t use street downlighters – We do have small LED lights, they illuminate your way on the park, but don’t pollute the night sky, so bring a torch for the darker nights as we keep our park dark so we can see all the stars and planets.

• We use LED bulbs, to conserve energy in all of our buildings!

• We recycle to lessen the burdens of landfill and 3 recycling sites.

• We do NOT allow hose pipes to wash caravans to help with Cornwall’s on going drought issue!

• We no longer offer broachers and everything is online to help stay green! Most of us use websites today and this is the best way to cut down on print and pollution!

• We have an ongoing shrub and tree planting programme to ensure our valley is forever green. We have planted native apple species, native hedges and trees around the park.

• We have planted many native species of apple trees, other fruit baring trees and we have tradition Cornish hedgerows with blackthorn, rosehip, blackberry and so on.

• At Trethiggey we encourage wildlife. We have nesting boxes for birds and bats; along with areas for ducks and geese on our small lakes plus many bird feeders and even hedge hog homes. Through thoughtful development of our lakes for tadpoles, frogs, newts and our fish and all things aquatic. We do not allow fishing as the fisher are happier without being hooked and caught! We do have plenty of places to fish close by. Our lakes are to be enjoyed and the fish like it this way. Our lakes are natural lakes and we allow nature to control how the lakes look, sometimes they can look to humans as if its overgrown but this its natural state and better for the wildlife.

• You maybe lucky enough to spot or foxes, deer, badger and wile rabbits to wild pheasant, Jackdaws and hawks.