Hunsdon Mead

Hunsdon Mead
Site of Special Scientific Interest

Area of Search	Essex Hertfordshire
Grid reference	TL418110
Interest	Biological
Area	34.0 hectares
Notification	1984
Location map	Magic Map

Hunsdon Mead is a 34 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) west of Harlow in Essex. The site is partly in Essex and partly in Hertfordshire, and it is jointly owned and managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust and the Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust. The SSSI also includes part of the neighbouring Roydon Mead. The planning authorities are East Hertfordshire District Council and Epping Forest District Council.^[1]^[2] Hunsdon Mead is registered common land.^[3]

Hunsdon Mead is located between the River Stort and the Stort Navigation. It is unimproved grassland which is subject to winter flooding. As a result of its location and traditional management it supports a number of uncommon plants. Notable grass species include meadow brome and the quaking grass briza media, and there are other unusual flora such as pepper saxifrage and green-winged orchid. Roydon Mead lies east of the Stort Navigation, and both have large flocks of over-wintering birds.^[1]

There is access from the Stort Navigation towpath.

References

1 2 "Hunsdon Mead citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
↑ "Map of Hunsdon Mead". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
↑ "Hunsdon Mead and Eastwick Mead". Common Land in England. Retrieved 22 December 2014.

External links

"Hunsdon and Eastwick Meads". Herts & Middlesex Wildlife Trust.
"Hunsdon Mead Nature Reserve". Essex Wildlife Trust.

Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Hertfordshire

Biological	Aldbury Nowers Alpine Meadow Amwell Quarry Ashridge Commons and Woods Ashwell Springs Benington High Wood Blagrove Common Bricket Wood Common Croxley Common Moor Frogmore Meadows Great Hormead Park Hertford Heath Hunsdon Mead Knebworth Woods Moor Hall Meadows Northaw Great Wood Oddy Hill and Tring Park Patmore Heath Plashes Wood Redwell Wood Roughdown Common Rye Meads Sarratt Bottom Sawbridgeworth Marsh Sherrardspark Wood Tewinbury Therfield Heath Thorley Flood Pound Tring Reservoirs Tring Woodlands Turnford and Cheshunt Pits Wain Wood Water End Swallow Holes Whippendell Wood Wormley-Hoddesdonpark Wood North Wormley-Hoddesdonpark Wood South

Geological	Castle Lime Works Quarry Downfield Pit, Westmill Hillcollins Pit Little Heath Pit Moor Mill Quarry, West Oughtonhead Lane Westwood Quarry

Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust

Dacorum	Aldbury Nowers Alpine Meadow Long Deans Tring Reservoirs

East Hertfordshire	Amwell Quarry Balls Wood Danemead Hertford Heath Hunsdon and Eastwick Meads King's Meads Patmore Heath Rye Meads Tewin Orchard and Hopkyns Wood Tewinbury Thorley Wash Waterford Heath Willowmead

Hertsmere	Hilfield Park Reservoir

North Hertfordshire	Ashwell Quarry and Quarry Springs Barkway Chalk Pit Blagrove Common Fox Covert Hawkins Wood Hexton Chalk Pit Hill End Pit Oughtonhead Pryor's Wood Purwell Ninesprings

St Albans	Broad Colney Lakes

Stevenage	Ridlins Mire

Three Rivers	Frogmore Meadow Longspring Wood Stocker's Lake

Watford	Cassiobury Park

Welwyn Hatfield	Fir and Pond Woods Gobions Wood Lemsford Springs Stanborough Reedmarsh Stocking Springs Wood

Hillingdon	Broadwater Lake Old Park Wood Uxbridge Alderglade

Coordinates: 51°46′47″N 0°03′15″E / 51.7797°N 0.0541°E / 51.7797; 0.0541

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Hunsdon Mead

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