Upwood Meadows Explained
| Upwood Meadows |
| Aos: | Cambridgeshire |
| Interest: | Biological |
| Area: | 6.0 hectares |
| Notifydate: | 1985 |
| Map: | Magic Map |
Upwood Meadows is a 6 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Upwood in Cambridgeshire.[1] [2] It is also a National Nature Reserve[3] [4] and a Grade I Nature Conservation Review site.[5] It is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.[6]
The site has three fields on calcareous clay with poor drainage, a type of pasture now very rare, and was described by Derek Ratcliffe as having "an outstandingly rich and diverse flora".[5] Other habitats are mature hedgerows, ponds and scrub. One of the fields is agriculturally unimproved, and the evidence of medieval ridge and furrow still survives. Flowering plants include pepper saxifrage and green-winged orchid.[7]
There is access by a footpath from Bentley Close in Upwood.
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52.427°N -0.162°W
Notes and References
- Web site: Designated Sites View: Upwood Meadows . Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. 21 November 2016.
- Web site: Map of Upwood Meadows. Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. 21 November 2016.
- Web site: Cambridgeshire's National Nature Reserves. Natural England. 31 October 2008. 21 November 2016.
- Web site: Designated Sites View: Upwood Meadows NNR . Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. 21 November 2016.
- Book: Ratcliffe, Derek . A Nature Conservation Review. 2 . 139. Derek Ratcliffe . Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK . 1977. 0521-21403-3 .
- Web site: Upwood Meadows . Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire . 21 November 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160318234053/http://www.wildlifebcn.org/reserves/upwood-meadows . 18 March 2016 . dead .
- Web site: Upwood Meadows citation. Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. 21 November 2016. 24 October 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121024202646/http://www.sssi.naturalengland.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1001681.pdf. dead.
