Plashes Wood

Plashes Wood
Site of Special Scientific Interest

Area of Search	Hertfordshire
Grid reference	TL349165
Interest	Biological
Area	19.7 hectares
Notification	1984
Location map	Magic Map

Plashes Wood is a 71.9 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Standon in Hertfordshire. The local planning authority is East Hertfordshire District Council.^[1]^[2] The wood is private property.^[3]

The site is mainly oak and hornbeam woodland near the northern limit of its natural distribution. It has varied ground flora on soils from damp heavy clay to light gravels. Common plants include bramble, bluebells and dog' mercury. There are also ponds and extensive clearings dominated by bracken, and other flora including hoary cinquefoil.^[1]

There is access from a footpath next to Colliers End church in Ermine Street.

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References

1 2 "Plashes Wood citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
↑ "Map of Plashes Wood". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
↑ Notices on the site

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

Coordinates: 51°52′01″N 0°00′21″E / 51.8669°N 0.0058°E / 51.8669; 0.0058

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