Long Herdon Meadow

Long Herdon Meadow
Site of Special Scientific Interest

Area of Search	Buckinghamshire
Grid reference	SP648202
Interest	Biological
Area	4.5 hectares
Notification	1985
Location map	Magic Map

Long Herdon Meadow is a 4.5 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Marsh Gibbon in Buckinghamshire.^[1]^[2] It is part of Upper Ray Meadows nature reserve, which is managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.^[3]

The site is an alluvial meadow next to the River Ray in the Vale of Aylesbury. It has clay soil and is liable to flooding. A regime of a hay cut followed by cattle grazing, without the use of artificial fertilisers, has resulted in a diverse grassland habitat now rare in England. Herbs include meadow buttercup, lesser knapweed and devil's bit scabious. Ditches and the riverbank provide a permanently wet habitat, encouraging wading birds such as snipe and curlew. Invertebrates include damselflies.^[1]

There is access from the Bernwood Jubilee Way between Marsh Gibbon and the A41 road, adjacent to the River Ray.

References

1 2 "Long Herdon Meadow citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
↑ "Map of Long Herdon Meadow". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
↑ "Upper Ray Meadows". Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 20 March 2016.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Long Herdon Meadow.

Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Buckinghamshire

Biological	Ashridge Commons and Woods Aston Clinton Ragpits Aston Rowant Aston Rowant Woods Bacombe and Coombe Hills Black Park Bradenham Woods, Park Wood and The Coppice Burnham Beeches Buttlers Hangings Dancersend Dancersend Waterworks Ellesborough and Kimble Warrens Fayland Chalk Bank Finemere Wood Foxcote Reservoir and Wood Frieth Meadows Frogmore Meadows Gomm Valley Grangelands and Pulpit Hill Grendon and Doddershall Woods Ham Home-cum-Hamgreen Woods Hodgemoor Wood Hollowhill and Pullingshill Woods Homefield Wood Howe Park Wood Ivinghoe Hills Kingcup Meadows and Oldhouse Wood Kings and Bakers Woods and Heaths Littleworth Common Lodge Hill Long Herdon Meadow Mid Colne Valley Millfield Wood Moorend Common Naphill Common Old Rectory Meadows Oxley Mead Pilch Fields Pitstone Hill Poker's Pond Meadow Rodbed Wood Rushbeds Wood and Railway Cutting Shabbington Woods Complex Sheephouse Wood Stoke Common Swain's Wood Temple Island Meadows Tingewick Meadows Tring Reservoirs Turville Hill Weston Turville Reservoir Widdenton Park Wood Windsor Hill Wormsley Chalk Banks Yardley Chase

Geological	Bierton Clay Pit Bolter End Sand Pit Bugle Quarry Fern House Gravel Pit Froghall Brickworks Muswell Hill Pitstone Quarry South Lodge Pit Stone Warren Farm, Stewkley

Coordinates: 51°52′36″N 1°03′36″W / 51.8766°N 1.0601°W / 51.8766; -1.0601

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, March 20, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.