| Port Meadow with Wolvercote Common and Green | |
| Aos: | Oxfordshire |
| Interest: | Biological |
| Area: | 167.1ha |
| Notifydate: | 1986 |
| Map: | Magic Map |
Port Meadow with Wolvercote Common and Green is a 167.1abbr=offNaNabbr=off biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Oxford in Oxfordshire.[1] [2] It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I,[3] and part of Oxford Meadows Special Area of Conservation.[4] The remains of Godstow Abbey, which is a Scheduled Monument, are in the north of the site.
This site consists of meadows in the floodplain of the River Thames. It is thought to have been grazed for over a thousand years and is a classic site for studying the effects of grazing on flora. There is a low diversity compared with neighbouring fields which are cut for hay, but 178 flowering plants have been recorded, including creeping marshwort, which is a Red Data Book species not found anywhere else in Britain.[5]
. Derek . Ratcliffe . A Nature Conservation Review. 2 . 129. Derek Ratcliffe . Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK . 1977. 0521-21403-3 .