Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
Location | Cambridgeshire |
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Grid reference | TL 286 985 [1] |
Interest | Biological |
Area | 8.6 hectares [1] |
Notification | 1984 [1] |
Location map | Magic Map |
Bassenhally Pit is an 8.6-hectare (21-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-east of Whittlesey in Cambridgeshire. [1] [2]
This former gravel quarry has diverse habitats, such as a pond, marshes, grassland, scrub and woodland. The marsh is a nationally scarce habitat, and it has plants including jointed rush, creeping bent, lesser water-plantain, early marsh-orchid and water violet. [3]
The site is owned by the Whittlesey Wildfowlers and Conservationists, and there is no public access.
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