Plumpton Pasture

Plumpton Pasture
	Site of Special Scientific Interest
Area of Search	Northamptonshire
Grid reference	SP 594 480 [1]
Interest	Biological
Area	3.6 hectares [1]
Notification	1985 [1]
Location map	Magic Map

Last updated May 02, 2019

Plumpton Pasture is a 3.6 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Towcester in Northamptonshire.^[1]^[2]

A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Great Britain or an Area of Special Scientific Interest (ASSI) in the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom and Isle of Man. SSSI/ASSIs are the basic building block of site-based nature conservation legislation and most other legal nature/geological conservation designations in the United Kingdom are based upon them, including national nature reserves, Ramsar sites, Special Protection Areas, and Special Areas of Conservation. The acronym "SSSI" is often pronounced "triple-S I".

Towcester is a market town in Northamptonshire, England. It is the administrative headquarters of the South Northamptonshire district council.

Northamptonshire, archaically known as the County of Northampton, is a county in the East Midlands of England. In 2015 it had a population of 723,000. The county is administered by Northamptonshire County Council and by seven non-metropolitan district councils. It is known as "The Rose of the Shires".

There are medieval ridge and furrows on this unimproved meadow on clay. The drier ridge tops have many herbs, while the damp furrows are dominated by creeping bent and Yorkshire fog grasses. There are also mature hedges and a small pond.^[3]

Ridge and furrow is an archaeological pattern of ridges and troughs created by a system of ploughing used in Europe during the Middle Ages, typical of the open field system. It is also known as rigand furrow, mostly in the North East of England and in Scotland.

Agrostis stolonifera is a perennial grass species in the Poaceae family.

The site is private land with no public access.

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References

1 2 3 4 "Designated Sites View: Plumpton Pasture". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
↑ "Map of Plumpton Pasture". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
↑ "Plumpton Pasture citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 11 April 2017.

Coordinates: 52°07′41″N1°07′59″W / 52.128°N 1.133°W / 52.128; -1.133

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[dsv-1] 1 2 3 4 "Designated Sites View: Plumpton Pasture". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 11 April 2017.

[map-2] "Map of Plumpton Pasture". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 11 April 2017.

[3] "Plumpton Pasture citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 11 April 2017.