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Besthorpe Meadows |
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Besthorpe Meadows consists of two unimproved
alluvial grasslands within the floodplain of the River Trent in east
Nottinghamshire. They represent an extensive area of a distinctive
plant community now nationally rare and reliant upon seasonal flooding
and traditional forms of management for their survival. |
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Birklands and Bilhaugh |
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Site is a remnant of the historic Sherwood
Forest and contains the best remaining examples of oak-birch woodland
in Nottinghamshire, together with tracts of acid grassland and heath.
The invertebrate faunas, particularly those associated with old trees
and dead wood, are exceptional. |
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Clipstone Heath |
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Clipstone Heath comprises an important
area of a once much more extensive dry acid lowland heathland of central
Nottinghamshire. Nationally, this habitat has greatly declined in
extent in the face of agriculture, forestry, development and neglect
and so the conservation of remaining areas dominated by dwarf shrubs
has assumed the highest priority. On this site, the heath, which has
formed over Bunter pebble beds, grades into tussocky unimproved acid
grassland and both habitats possess many plants characteristic of
the freely draining sandy soil. |
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Hoveringham Pastures |
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The site comprises a fine example of a
grazed neutral grassland developed on the loam soils of the River
Trent floodplain and is representative of grassland developed on light
alluvial soils in Central England. |
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Kirton Wood |
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The site comprises one of the best remaining
ash-wych elm woods in Nottinghamshire and is representative of semi-natural
woodland on clay soils in the North Midlands. |
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Eakring and Maplebeck
Meadows |
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The site comprises one of the best remaining
neutral grasslands in Nottinghamshire and is representative of grassland
developed on alluvial soils in Central and Southern England. |
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Laxton Sykes |
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The site comprises some of the best remaining
neutral grasslands in Nottinghamshire and is representative of grasslands
developed on Midland clays. |
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Mather Wood |
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The site comprises one of the best remaining
examples of ash-oak-maple woodland in Nottinghamshire and is representative
of semi-natural woodland on clay soils in Central and Eastern England. |
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Newhall Reservoir Meadow |
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The site comprises one of the best remaining
examples of calcareous clay soils in Central and Southern England. |
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Rainworth Lakes |
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The site contains some of the best examples
of base-poor marsh and open water plant communities remaining in Nottinghamshire
and is of regional importance. |
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Rainworth Heath |
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The site contains some of the best remaining
areas of wet and dry heath in Nottinghamshire and is representative
of heathland in Central and Southern England. |
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Redgate Wood and Mansey
Common |
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The site comprises the best remaining examples
of broad leaved semi-natural and neutral grassland in Nottinghamshire
and is representative of woodland and grassland developed on Midland
clays. |
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Roe Wood |
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Roe Wood may be considered as representing
a transitional stage between the ash-wych elm woods and the ash-oak-maple
woods of the central Nottinghamshire series of woods developed on
clay soils derived from the Triassic Keuper Marl. Although the woodland
structure has been modified by recent management, Roe Wood retains
a well developed and characteristic woodland flavour. |
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Sherwood Forest Golf Course |
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This site, lying on the Triassic Sherwood
Sandstones of Central Nottinghamshire, in close proximity to other
smaller areas of heathland, contains one of the largest blocks of
lowland heath in the County. As such, it represents a substantial
example of a nationally rare habitat type, which was formerly extensive
in this part of Nottinghamshire, and supports a number of uncommon
plants and animals. |
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Spalford Warren |
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The site comprises the best remaining example
of grass heath, dominated by wavy hair grass and sand sedge, in Nottinghamshire
and is one of the few sites of this type to be found in the Midlands. |
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Thoresby Lake |
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The site contains fine examples of dry
acid grassland and acid loam grassland, marsh and reedswamp plant
communities which, together with an area of open water, comprise one
of the best mixed habitat assemblages on base poor soils in Nottinghamshire. |
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Wellow Park |
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The site comprises the largest remaining
example of ash-wych elm woodland in Nottinghamshire and is representative
of semi-natural woodland developed on relatively base rich clays in
the North Midlands. |
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