Kingcup Meadows and Oldhouse Wood

Kingcup Meadows and Oldhouse Wood
Site of Special Scientific Interest

Kingcup Meadows
Area of Search Buckinghamshire
Grid reference TQ030851
Interest Biological
Area 13.2 hectares
Notification 1992
Location map Magic Map

Kingcup Meadows and Oldhouse Wood is a 13.2 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Denham in Buckinghamshire.[1][2]

The site is a mosaic of different habitats next to the River Alder Bourne, including unimproved pasture and woodland. The meadows have dry and wet grassland, swamp and fen. The eastern fields are grazed by cattle and the eastern ones, which are drier, have a late hay crop. Grasses include red fescue and in drier areas and creeping bent in wetter ones. Oldhouse Wood has ash and field maple on upper slopes and oak and birch on lower ones. There are several species of dragonfly.[1]

There is access from a road between Copse Hill Farm and Willetts Lane.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Kingcup Meadows and Oldhouse Wood citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
  2. "Map of Kingcup Meadows and Oldhouse Wood". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 13 March 2016.

Coordinates: 51°33′19″N 0°30′57″W / 51.5554°N 0.5157°W / 51.5554; -0.5157

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