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The Wildlife Sites of Rushcliffe

Alphabetical List

A606 Woodland LWS

Adbolton Marsh LWS

Barnstone Railway Cutting SSSI

Barton in Fabis

Bingham Linear Park

Borders Wood

Bridgford Street Meadow

Bunny & Gotham Moors

Collington Common

Colston Basset Hose Lane NRV

Colston Basset Langar Lane NRV

Cotgrave Country Park

Cotgrave Forest

Fairham Brook NR

Fishpond Wood LWS

Flintham Wood LWS

Gotham Hill Pastures SSSI

Gotham Sandbanks NR SSSI

Gotham Wood

Grantham Canal

Great Central Railway

Green Line SINC

Gresham Marsh

Hickling Notified Road Verge

Holme Pierrepont

Keyworth Meadow LNR

Keyworth Wildflower Meadow

Kinoulton Marsh & Canal SSSI

Lily Ponds LWS

Meadow Covert Wood

Meadow Park

Millennium Green, Orston

New Wood, Bunny LWS

Normanton Pastures SSSI

Old Wood Nature Reserve

Orston Plaster Pits SSSI

Rancliffe Wood

Rushcliffe Country Park

Rushcliffe Golf Course

Sharphill Wood LNR & LWS

Sheldon Field

Skylarks Nature Reserve

Springdale Wood

Stanford Park LWS

Stanford-on-the-Wolds Golf Course LWS

Sutton Bonington Meadow & Spinney LNR

The Hook

Upper Saxondale

Widmerpool Notified Road Verge

Wilford Clay Pits Nature Reserve

Wilford Hill Wood

Willoughby Wood

Willwell Farm Cutting Nature Reserve

All the designated sites in Rushcliffe and south Notts

Below is a list of all the Local Wildlife Sites, Ancient Woodlands, Local Nature Reserves and Sites of Special Scientific Interest.

Local Wildlife Sites

Parish	Title of LWS	Area (Ha)	NGR 1 (SK)	NGR 2 (SK)	NGR 3 (SK)	NGR 4 (SK)
Barton in Fabis	Brandshill Wood	14.4	530334
Barton in Fabis	Brandshill Grassland	12.1	534337
Barton in Fabis	Barton Flash	8.8	527341
Barton in Fabis / Nottingham	Brandshill Marsh	3.9	532339
Barton in Fabis	Fishing Pools	1.7	518327	518323
Barton in Fabis	Borrow Pits,	1.1	527332
Barton in Fabis	Pond and Drain	0.45	528339
Bingham / Wiverton Hall / Whatton / Granby	Bingham Linear Park	11.7	696396	732368
Bradmore	Rancliffe Wood	20	597307
Bunny	Old Wood	32.5	588284
Bunny	New Wood	13.9	573284
Bunny	Windmill Hill Wood (Bluebell Wood)	8	598289
Bunny	Rough Hill	5.7	568286
Bunny	Lodge Plantation Pond	2.9	594297
Bunny	Marblaegis Mine	2.8	585288
Bunny	Bunny Park Ponds	2.6	596296
Bunny	Bunny Park Road	2.2	590291
Bunny	Rough Grassy Scrub	0.7	572287
Bunny	Fairham Brook	0.5	573293
Car Colston	High Westings Farm Marsh	1.6	707418
Clipston on the Wolds	Wolds Plantation	0.8	633325
Clipston on the Wolds	Wolds Lane Verges	0.4	638335
Clipston on the Wolds / Cotgrave	Cotgrave Forest	150.5	646330
Colston Bassett	Stroomfields Verges	0.2	712340
Colston Bassett	Kaye Wood Pond	0.02	702323
Colston Bassett / Langar cum Barnstone	Hose Lane Verges	2.5	714315
Colston Bassett / Wiverton Hall /Bingham / Whatton / Aslockton / Elton / Orston / Thoroton / Shelton / Flawborough	River Smite	6.7	725378
Costock	Intake Wood	5.9	588275
Costock	Ash Lane Meadows	4.1	570279	573279
Costock	Costock Meadow	1.8	573282
Costock	Costock Grassland	0.3	577278
Costock / Rempstone	Sheepwash Brook Wetlands	4.9	566250
Cotgrave	Cotgrave Colliery (Country Park)	42.4	647365
Cotgrave / Cropwell Bishop / Colston Basset /Kinoulton / Hickling	Grantham Canal (Hollygate Bridge to Kinoulton)	15.1	680339
Cotgrave / Tollerton / Holme Pierrepont / Gamston / West Bridgford	Grantham Canal (Cotgrave to River Trent)	7.1	584384	620371
Cropwell Bishop	Gypsum Spoil	5.6	681348
Cropwell Bishop	Hoe Hill Pasture	2.5	679359
Cropwell Bishop	Gypsum Quarry	2.2	674354
Cropwell Bishop	Cropwell Bishop Gypsum Spoil II	1.5	671355
Cropwell Bishop	Cropwell Bishop Relict Pasture	0.7	673353
Cropwell Bishop	Colston Road Farm Grassland	0.6	681341
Cropwell Butler	Berry Hill Pond	0.2	675367
Cropwell Butler	Cropwell Butler Pond	0.15	686371
Cropwell Butler	Cropwell Butler Pond	0.15	686370
East Bridgford	East Bridgford Pasture	2.7	701454
East Bridgford	Pasture Bank	1	696449
East Bridgford	Trent Hills	0.5	697451
East Bridgford	Trent Hills Pool	0.15	700455
East Bridgford / Kneeton / Flintham	River Trent (Gunthorpe to Fiskerton)	72.4	713459
East Bridgford.	Trent Hills Wood	8.1	696449
East Leake	Hotchley Hill	7.4	558285
East Leake	East Leake Bridleway Verges	2	561283
East Leake	Manor Farm Grassland, East Leake	1.5	599254
Elton	Oldfield Plantation	4.8	771393
Elton	Railway Pond, Orston	0.5	760400
Flawborough	Kilvington Lakes	82.9	795437	793431	790432
Flawborough	Flawborough Ponds (The Triangle)	1.8	787426
Flintham	Flintham Park	97.4	735461
Flintham	Flintham Wood	19.1	726485
Flintham	Barleyhole Wood	6.7	739447
Flintham	Stoneydale Plantation	3.6	721446
Gamston / Holme Pierrepont	Gamston Pits (A52 Lake)	106.6	614381
Gotham	Rushcliffe District Golf Course	26.6	543281
Gotham	Gotham Hill Pasture	8.5	531309
Gotham	Gotham Wood	7.7	523293
Gotham	Long Spinney Pastures	4.5	534311
Gotham	Court Hill Grassland	2.8	539286
Gotham	Hill Road Grassland	2	534293
Gotham	Gotham Disused Railway	1.8	535296
Gotham	Cuckoo Bush	0.5	534292
Gotham / Barton in Fabis	Long Spinney	14.7	533312
Granby	Granby Green Lane Grasslands	3.4	759357
Granby	Granby Green Lane	1.7	760358
Granby	Sutton Pond	0.03	770375
Granby	Granby Lodge Pond	0.01	760358
Hawksworth / Flintham	Car Dyke	0.6	755444
Hickling	Broughton Wolds Grasslands	11.1	659270
Hickling	Hickling Standard Pasture	9.7	682280
Hickling	Crossroads Meadow	7.5	655288
Hickling	Hickling Green Lane Verges	3.1	681276
Hickling	Hickling Meadow South	2.6	669270
Hickling	Bridegate Lane Verge	1.3	677285
Hickling	Folly Hall Lane Meadow	0.4	663265
Hickling	Hickling Track and Bank	0.15	665289
Holme Pierrepont	Holme Pierrepont	82.3	623399
Holme Pierrepont	Shady Lane Pits (New Skylarks)	54.2	624386
Holme Pierrepont	Holme Pierrepont	29.2	618388
Holme Pierrepont	Holme Pierrepont (Finger Ponds)	13.7	628395
Holme Pierrepont	Skylarks NR	10.8	620391
Holme Pierrepont	Pinder's Pond	2.5	599385
Holme Pierrepont	Holme House Grassland	2.3	632383
Holme Pierrepont	Adbolton Marsh	0.4	603385
Keyworth	BGS Meadow	4.4	623315
Keyworth	Wolds Lane Meadow	1.7	616298
Keyworth	Fairham Brook Pasture	1.4	612290
Keyworth / Widmerpool	Roehoe Brook	0.2	631290
Keyworth / Wysall	Fairham Brook (inc Keyworth Meadow)	3.6	612289
Kingston on Soar	Copse, Kingston on Soar	3	513291
Kingston on Soar	Kinoulton Grassland II	2	672307
Kinoulton	Kinoulton Gorse	7.5	659309
Kinoulton	Kinoulton Meadow	7.4	676301
Kinoulton	Kinoulton Lane Pasture	3	666304
Kinoulton	Kinoulton Wolds Middle Pasture	2.8	661305
Kinoulton	Kinoulton Marsh	2.3	678304
Kinoulton	Kinoulton Grasslands	1.6	673308
Kinoulton	Kinoulton Wolds Lower Pasture	1	663305
Kinoulton	Kinoulton Wolds Upper Pasture	1	660304
Kinoulton	Kinoulton Grassland	0.9	673306
Kinoulton / Hickling	Grantham Canal (Kinoulton to River Smite)	4.9	675306	714294
Kneeton	College Woood Pasture	6.3	714468
Langar cum Barnstone	Langar Quarry	23.9	732348
Langar cum Barnstone	Langar Airfield	20.3	734337	734334	741341	747333
Langar cum Barnstone	Barnstone Dismantled Railway	4.7	746348
Langar cum Barnstone	Barnstone Disused Railway	1.5	748344
Langar cum Barnstone	Barnstone Grassland	1.2	742353
Langar cum Barnstone	Naturescape Pond	0.04	733341
Normanton on Soar	Pond and Quarry Spoil	1.1	536240
Normanton on the Wolds	Normanton Pastures	16.5	625332
Normanton on the Wolds	Normanton on the Wolds Cutting	1.7	627321
Nottingham	Beeston Weir River Deposits	2.9	536351
Nottingham	Trent Carr, Clifton	3.2	538348
Nottingham	Holme Pit	6.5	535345
Nottingham	Clifton Wood	12.2	538345
Nottingham	Burrows Farm Grassland	1.7	535342
Nottingham	Clifton Fox Covert	2.8	539341
Nottingham	Clifton Grove	13.9	545353
Nottingham	Clifton Spinney Pond	1	556357
Nottingham	Fairham Brook North of Fairham Bridge	13.1	560356
Nottingham	Fairham Brook Nature Reserve	10.9	558335
Orston	Orston Quarry and Grasslands (Plaster Pits)	5.8	762401
Orston	Orston Railway	4.1	778399
Orston	Orston Horse Pastures	1.8	771413
Owthorpe	Borders Wood	60	659329
Owthorpe	Fishpond Plantation	2.5	677335
Owthorpe	Herrywell Lane	0.8	666328
Plumtree	Plumtree Disused Railway	4.2	607330
Radcliffe on Trent	Dewberry Hill	7.4	656390
Radcliffe on Trent	The Avenue Pool (Lily Pond)	1	649404
Radcliffe on Trent / Shelford and Newton	Trent Bluff Scrub	3.7	650406
Ratcliffe on Soar	Red Hill	5.3	493304
Ruddington	Rushcliffe Country Park	63.6	572320
Ruddington	Wilwell Cutting	7.8	566349
Ruddington	Ruddington Railway	6.5	565327
Ruddington	Ruddington Moor Drain	0.1	558318
Ruddington / East Leake / Stanford on Soar	Great Central Railway (GCR)	33.1	543257
Saxondale	Saxondale Railway	9.2	677401
Shelford and Newton	Shelford Carr	20.1	667434
Shelford and Newton	Swallow Plantation	2.3	654415
Shelford and Newton	Shelford Manor Pond	0.2	673433
Shelford and Newton	Manor Lane Bank, Shelford	0.15	664429
Shelford and Newton	Field Lane Dyke	0.1	667419
Shelford and Newton	Manor Lane Bank	0.1	664430
Stanford on Soar	Stanford Park	113.1	559237
Stanford on Soar	Fox Hill Scrub	5.4	536221
Stanford on Soar	Old Soar, Stanford	0.8	541220
Stanford on Soar	R.Soar Oxbow Lake	0.6	525219
Stanford on Soar / Normanton on Soar / Sutton Bonington / Kingston on Soar / Ratcliffe on Soar	R. Soar Loughborough Meadows to Trent	54.3	492258
Stanton on the Wolds	Stanton on the Wolds Golf Course	50.2	631309
Stanton on the Wolds	Jerico Farm Grassland	5.9	652308
Stanton on the Wolds	Stanton on the Wolds Field Pond (III)	0.08	651307
Stanton on the Wolds	Jerico Farm Pond I	0.07	650304
Stanton on the Wolds	Stanton on the Wolds Field Pond I	0.05	650307
Stanton on the Wolds	Stanton on the Wolds Field Pond (II)	0.04	650309
Stanton on the Wolds	Jerico Farm Pond II	0.03	650302
Stanton on the Wolds	Roehoe Wood Pond	0.01	652301
Stanton on the Wolds / Widmerpool	Stanton Railway (including Stanton Tunnel)	13.3	636311	645296
Sutton Bonington	St Anne's Church	0.3	507250
Thorpe in the Glebe	Thorpe in the Glebe Plantation	5.4	620260
Thorpe in the Glebe	Woodside Farm Grassland	4.1	615259
Thorpe in the Glebe	Thorpe in the Glebe Meadow	3.7	613260
Thorpe in the Glebe	Plantation Grassland	3.3	619260
Thorpe in the Glebe	Woodside Farm Grassland 1	1.5	617259
Thorpe in the Glebe	Woodside Farm Orchard	0.7	615261
Thorpe in the Glebe	Boundary Grassland	0.5	608258
Thorpe in the Glebe	Thorpe in the Glebe Pond	0.03	606255
Thrumpton	Thrumpton Park	78.7	506311
Thrumpton	Gotham Hill Woods	34.8	522306
Thrumpton	Thrumpton Bank	0.4	513320
Tithby	Fernhill Farm Grasslands	9	701357
Upper Broughton	Upper Broughton Pasture	17.1	675253
Upper Broughton	Upper Broughton Meadows	10.3	671254
Upper Broughton	Upper Broughton Meadow	4.7	678253
Upper Broughton	Railway, Upper Broughton	3.1	671259
Upper Broughton	Upper Broughton Meadow II	2.3	680255
Upper Broughton	Upper Broughton Pond	0.04	668256
Upper Broughton	Upper Broughton Pond (I)	0.01	683265
West Bridgford	Sharphill Wood	9.6	585349
West Bridgford	Trentside, West Bridgford	6.8	571378
West Bridgford	Iremonger Pond	4.5	569379
West Bridgford	West Bridgford Disused Railway (Green Line)	4.4	586365
West Bridgford	Trent Pasture (Gresham marsh)	4.1	574373
West Bridgford	Wilford Claypits	3.9	570355
West Bridgford	Wilford Hill	3.6	577350
West Bridgford	Wilford Disused Railway	3.2	568373
West Bridgford	Greythorne Dyke	1.3	573365	573372
West Bridgford	Compton Acres Ponds	0.6	568362	570361
West Leake	Crownend Wood (Eastern Assart)	2.1	530282
West Leake	Crownend Wood (Western Assart)	1.8	529285
West Leake	Ash Spinney Assart	1.2	537273
West Leake	Leake New Wood Track	0.6	535281
West Leake	Pithouse Lane Marsh	0.6	525260
West Leake	West Leake Hills	0.4	533280
West Leake	Crownend Wood Ride	0.2	528286
Widmerpool	Roehoe Wood	15.2	645301
Widmerpool	Widmerpool Hall Woods	12.2	629285
Widmerpool	The Stonepits	4.9	631286
Widmerpool	Roehoe Wood Grassland	2.8	650298
Widmerpool	Widmerpool Grange Pond	1.8	633277
Widmerpool	A606 Woodland	1.2	650292
Widmerpool	Staion Road Verge	0.6	633289
Widmerpool	Thurlby Lane Verge	0.3	639293
Widmerpool / Wysall	Fairham Brook, Widmerpool	0.6	625277
Willoughby on the Wolds	Willoughby on the Wolds Stream Grassland	4.3	621262
Willoughby on the Wolds	Willoughby on the Wolds Border Grassland	2	626255
Willoughby on the Wolds	Willoughby on the Wolds Drain	1.4	646262
Willoughby on the Wolds	Willoughby on the Wolds Pond North	0.02	642257
Willoughby on the Wolds	Broughton Lodge Pond	0.02	649250
Willoughby on the Wolds	Woodside Farm Pond	0.02	616259
Wysall	Wysall West Grassland	3	603279
Wysall / Thorpe in the Glebe	Costock Road (iii)	1.3	599266

Ancient Woodlands

Parish	Title	NGR (SK)	Designation
Gotham	New Kingston Woodland	520289	Ancient / Semi-natural Woodland
Gotham	Gotham Wood	523292	Ancient / Semi-natural Woodland
Shelford and Newton / Radcliffe on Trent	Malkin Hill Wood	650404	Ancient / Semi-natural Woodland
Bunny	Old Wood, Bunny	589284	Ancient / Semi-natural Woodland
Flintham	Flintham Wood	726485	Ancient / Semi-natural Woodland
Kneeton	College Wood	715469	Ancient / Semi-natural Woodland
Kneeton / East Bridgford	Ewan's Wood	705460	Ancient / Semi-natural Woodland
Kneeton	Shipman's Wood	709463	Ancient Replanted Woodland

Local Nature Reserves

Parish	Title	NGR (SK)
Sutton Bonington	Sutton Bonington Meadow & Copse	501249
Keyworth	Keyworth Meadow	613289
Ruddington	Rushcliffe Country Park	574321
Ruddington	Wilwell Cutting	566349
West Bridgford	Sharphill Wood	586348
Bingham / Wiverton Hall / Whatton / Granby	Bingham Linear Park	696396

Sites of Special Scientific Interest

Gotham	Gotham Hill Pastures	531309
Ruddington	Wilwell Cutting	566349
West Bridgford	Wilford Clay Pits	570355
Gotham	Rushcliffe Golf Course	543281
Normanton on the Wolds	Normanton Pastures	625332
Orston	Orston Plaster Pits	762401
Langar cum Barnstone	Barnstone Railway Cutting	742353
Kinoulton	Kinoulton Marsh and Canal	678304