A wildlife corridor is a strip of land, often alongside a hedgerow, which is left uncultivated and managed in order to preserve the wildlife living in and associated with it.

Wildlife corridors act to link habitats through the landscape features such as woodland, hedgerows, ponds, wetland areas and even nesting and roosting sites in farm buildings.

The edges of fields are the least profitable as far as agricultural cropping is concerned as the crops there are shaded by the hedges and hedgerow trees. In leaving a few metres of land uncultivated either side of a hedge we can enhance the wildlife on the estate. The habitat this provides also increases the numbers of invertebrates that in turn feed on the aphids which attack the farm crops. The coarser vegetation in the uncultivated land also provides valuable habitat and protection for ground nesting birds.

Wildlife corridors on the estate are typically around 6 metres wide, and in total extend over more than 14 miles.