Tewinbury

Tewinbury
Site of Special Scientific Interest
River Mimram with Orchard Meadow on the right
Area of Search	Hertfordshire
Grid reference	TL264139
Interest	Biological
Area	7.5 hectares
Notification	1984
Location map	Magic Map

Tewinbury is a 7.5 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Tewin in Hertfordshire. The local planning authority is East Hertfordshire District Council,^[1]^[2] and the site is managed by the Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust^[3]

The site borders the River Mimram. It has alluvial meadows and marshes which are rare in lowland Britain. There are areas of swamp and tall fens, with plants including butterbur and angelica. Otters have been observed on the riverbank, in possibly the only site in the county. There is also an area of ash and willow woodland. There is a lagoon which has a two storey hide for observing birds and water voles.^[1]^[3]

Access to the site is in the drive to the Tewin Bury Farm Hotel on Hertford Road. There is a car park, which also serves the hotel, but no public access apart from the hide and a small area called Orchard Meadow behind the car park.

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References

1 2 "Tewinbury citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
↑ "Map of Tewinbury". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
1 2 "Tewinbury". Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 22 March 2015.

Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Hertfordshire

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Geological	Castle Lime Works Quarry Downfield Pit, Westmill Hillcollins Pit Little Heath Pit Moor Mill Quarry, West Oughtonhead Lane Westwood Quarry

Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust

Dacorum	Aldbury Nowers Alpine Meadow Long Deans Tring Reservoirs

East Hertfordshire	Amwell Quarry Balls Wood Danemead Hertford Heath Hunsdon and Eastwick Meads King's Meads Patmore Heath Rye Meads Tewin Orchard and Hopkyns Wood Tewinbury Thorley Wash Waterford Heath Willowmead

Hertsmere	Hilfield Park Reservoir

North Hertfordshire	Ashwell Quarry and Quarry Springs Barkway Chalk Pit Blagrove Common Fox Covert Hawkins Wood Hexton Chalk Pit Hill End Pit Oughtonhead Pryor's Wood Purwell Ninesprings

St Albans	Broad Colney Lakes

Stevenage	Ridlins Mire

Three Rivers	Frogmore Meadow Longspring Wood Stocker's Lake

Watford	Cassiobury Park

Welwyn Hatfield	Fir and Pond Woods Gobions Wood Lemsford Springs Stanborough Reedmarsh Stocking Springs Wood

Hillingdon	Broadwater Lake Old Park Wood Uxbridge Alderglade

Coordinates: 51°48′34″N 0°10′04″W / 51.8095°N 0.1679°W / 51.8095; -0.1679

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