Little Paxton Wood Explained

Little Paxton Wood
Aos:	Cambridgeshire
Interest:	Biological
Area:	44.1 hectares
Notifydate:	1989
Map:	Magic Map

Little Paxton Wood is a 44.1-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Little Paxton in Cambridgeshire.^{[1] [2]}

This ancient wood is wet ash and maple on heavy calcareous clay, with seasonally waterlogged soils, and it has an extremely diverse flora. A double bank and ditch has wood melick, sweet violet and the nationally restricted spiked star-of-Bethlehem.^[3]

The site is private land owned by the Church Commissioners, with no public access.^[4]

References

52.258°N -0.29°W

Notes and References

1. Web site: Designated Sites View: Little Paxton Wood . Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. 27 November 2016.
2. Web site: Map of Little Paxton Wood. Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. 27 November 2016.
3. Web site: Little Paxton Wood citation . Sites of Special Scientific Interest . Natural England . 27 November 2016 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304075401/http://www.sssi.naturalengland.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1000864.pdf . 4 March 2016 .
4. Web site: 'God's acres': the land owned by the Church Commissioners. Who owns England?.