Local Wildlife Site

Wildlife

This grassland was unmanaged for a number of years and allowed to develop into an interesting meadow. The vegetation can be quite coarse and would benefit from some regular but infrequent cutting. In drier places false oat-grass predominates while in damper areas tufted hair-grass is the more frequent species. Herbs include creeping cinquefoil, hoary ragwort, common vetch, creeping buttercup and cut-leaved crane's-bill. Two uncommon sedges, spiked sedge and grey sedge occur in a dry area near the demolished building in the south. A line of Lombardy poplars separates the grassland from the park to the north. The area has since been sown with seed mixes including native annual and perennial meadow flowers and grasses, chosen to provide a rich food source for bees and other pollinating insects.

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