Dancersend Waterworks

Dancersend Waterworks
Site of Special Scientific Interest

Area of Search	Buckinghamshire
Grid reference	SP906090
Interest	Biological
Area	4.0 hectares
Notification	1989
Location map	Magic Map

Dancersend Waterworks is a 4 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Spencersgreen south of Aston Clinton in Buckinghamshire. It was formerly a private waterworks supplying the Rothschild Dancersend estate, and is now owned by Thames Water. It is in the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.^[1]^[2] A cooling pond within the Thames Water site is a Grade II listed building.^[3]

The site is an area of artificial banks, basins and plateaux in a chalk valley bottom, which has an unusually wide variety of herbs, grasses and shrubs. There is a badger sett and a range of butterfly and bird species. Grassland areas are rich in orchids, and there is some scrub and woodland.^[1]

The site on Bottom Road has no public access.

References

1 2 "Dancersend Waterworks citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
↑ "Map of Dancersend Waterworks". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
↑ "Cooling Pond, List entry Number: 1418490". Historic England. Retrieved 10 October 2015.

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Coordinates: 51°46′22″N 0°41′15″W / 51.772793°N 0.687599°W / 51.772793; -0.687599

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