Innsworth Meadow

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Innsworth Meadow
Site of Special Scientific Interest
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Example - Meadow with Oxeye Daisies (Leucanthemum vulgare)
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Location within Gloucestershire
Location Gloucestershire
Grid reference SO851216
Coordinates 51°53′36″N2°13′02″W / 51.8932°N 2.2172°W / 51.8932; -2.2172
InterestBiological
Area2.9 hectare
Notification 1979
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Innsworth Meadow (grid reference SO851216 ) is a 2.9-hectare (7.2-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 1979. [1] [2]

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Location and use

The meadow overlies Lower Lias clays. It is one example of a very small number of unimproved neutral grasslands remaining in the Severn Vale near Innsworth and Twigworth. [1] It is used for the production of hay and stock grazing, and Natural England reports the status of this in September 2011. [3]

Flora

The meadow is old ridge and furrow grassland which has been traditionally managed. The dominant grasses are Common Bent, Red Fescue, Crested Dog’s-tail and Yorkshire Fog. Flowering herbs include Cowslip, Pepper Saxifrage, Yellow-rattle, Ox-eye Daisy, Great Burnet, the Green-winged Orchid and Corky-fruited Water Dropwort. [1]

There are thick Hawthorn hedges, with some Ash trees on three sides. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Natural England SSSI information on the citation
  2. "Tewkesbury Borough Local Plan to 2011, adopted March 2006, Appendix 3 'Nature Conservation', Sites of Special Scientific Interest". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 10 October 2012.
  3. Natural England SSSI information on the Innsworth Meadow unit

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