Innsworth Meadow

Innsworth Meadow
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Example - Meadow with Oxeye Daisies (Leucanthemum vulgare)
Shown within Gloucestershire
Area of Search	Gloucestershire
Grid reference	SO851216
Coordinates	51°53′36″N 2°13′02″W / 51.8932°N 2.2172°W / 51.8932; -2.2172Coordinates: 51°53′36″N 2°13′02″W / 51.8932°N 2.2172°W / 51.8932; -2.2172
Interest	Biological
Area	2.9 hectare
Notification	1979
Natural England website

Innsworth Meadow (grid reference SO851216) is a 2.9-hectare (7.2-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 1979.^[1]^[2]

Location and use

The meadow overlies Lower Lias clays. It is one example of a very small number of unimproved neutral grasslands remaining in the Severn Vale near Innsworth and Twigworth.^[1] It is used for the production of hay and stock grazing, and Natural England reports the status of this in September 2011.^[3]

Flora

The meadow is old ridge and furrow grassland which has been traditionally managed. The dominant grasses are Common Bent, Red Fescue, Crested Dog’s-tail and Yorkshire Fog. Flowering herbs include Cowslip, Pepper Saxifrage, Yellow-rattle, Ox-eye Daisy, Great Burnet, the Green-winged Orchid and Corky-fruited Water Dropwort.^[1]

There are thick Hawthorn hedges, with some Ash trees on three sides.^[1]

References

SSSI Source

External links

Natural England (SSSI information)

Biological Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire

Summarised data for all sites (biological and geological)

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Neighbouring areas Avon Hereford and Worcester Oxfordshire Wiltshire

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