Dogsthorpe Star Pit Explained

Dogsthorpe Star Pit
Aos:	Cambridgeshire
Interest:	Biological
Area:	36.4 hectares
Notifydate:	1993
Map:	Magic Map

Dogsthorpe Star Pit is a 36.4hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI)) on the eastern outskirts of Peterborough in Cambridgeshire.^[1] ^[2] It is also designated a Local Nature Reserve,^[3] ^[4] and it is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.^[5]

This former brick pit has been designated an SSSI mainly for its invertebrates, especially its water beetles, with 64 species, including four on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, Graptodytes bilineatus, Dryops similaris, Gyrinus distinctus and Myopites inulaedyssentericae. There are diverse habitats with grassland, scrub, reedbeds, sedge, bare clay and pools.^[6]

There is access to the site by a footpath from Whitepost Road.^[3]

References

52.608°N -0.212°W

Notes and References

Web site: Designated Sites View: Dogsthorpe Star Pit . Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. 30 November 2016.
Web site: Map of Dogsthorpe Star Pit. Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. 30 November 2016.
Web site: Dogsthorpe Star Pit. Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 20 February 2013. 30 November 2016. 16 August 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160816132959/http://www.lnr.naturalengland.org.uk/Special/lnr/lnr_details.asp?C=5&N=&ID=999. dead.
Web site: Map of Dogsthorpe Star Pit. Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 30 November 2016.
Web site: Dogsthorpe Star Pit . Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire . 30 November 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160817060715/http://www.wildlifebcn.org/reserves/dogsthorpe-star-pit . 17 August 2016 . dead .
Web site: Dogsthorpe Star Pitcitation. Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. 30 November 2016. 24 October 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121024194736/http://www.sssi.naturalengland.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1006649.pdf. dead.