Prestwick Road Meadows

Prestwick Road Meadows is a 2.8 hectare Local Nature Reserve in South Oxhey in Hertfordshire. It is owned and managed by Three Rivers District Council.^[1]^[2]

This site was formerly farm meadows. It has many insects and flowers include purple knapweed, yellow birdsfoot-trefoil and red clover. Old hedgerows still survive, and there is also a seasonal pond where frogs breed in the spring.^[3]

There is access from Prestwick Road between Little Oxhey Lane and Heysham Drive.

References

↑ "Prestwick Road Meadows". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 14 March 2013. Retrieved 29 July 2015.
↑ "Map of Prestwick Road Meadows". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 29 July 2015.
↑ "Prestwick Road Meadows" (PDF). Three Rivers District Council. Retrieved 29 July 2015.

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Coordinates: 51°37′03″N 0°23′17″W / 51.6176°N 0.388°W / 51.6176; -0.388

Local Nature Reserves in Hertfordshire

Broxbourne	Cheshunt Park Top Field and Cozens Grove

Dacorum	Howe Grove Wood Shrubhill Common

East Hertfordshire	Waterford Heath

Hertsmere	Fisher's Field Furzefield Wood and Lower Halfpenny Hilfield Park Reservoir

North Hertfordshire	Ivel Springs Norton Common Oughtonhead Common Purwell Meadows Therfield Heath Weston Hills

St Albans	Batford Springs Colney Heath Marshalls Heath Watercress Wildlife Site Wheathampstead The Wick

Three Rivers	Chorleywood Common Chorleywood House Estate Croxley Common Moor Oxhey Woods Prestwick Road Meadows Rickmansworth Aquadrome Stockers Lake The Withey Beds

Watford	Albans Wood Cassiobury Park Garston Park Harebreaks Wood The Lairage Land

Welwyn Hatfield	The Commons Danesbury Park Howe Dell Mardley Heath Northaw Great Wood Country Park Oxleys Wood Sherrardspark Wood Singlers Marsh Stanborough Reedmarsh

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