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Grid reference
  
TF 212 026

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Area
  
36 ha

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Interest
  
Biological

Address
  
Peterborough PE6 7YJ, UK

Phone
  
+44 1733 687515

Notification
  
1993

Dogsthorpe Star Pit

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Bittern dogsthorpe star pit april 2015


Dogsthorpe Star Pit is a 36.4 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI)) on the eastern outskirts of Peterborough in Cambridgeshire. It is also designated a Local Nature Reserve, and it is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.

This former brick pit has been designated an SSSI mainly for its invertebrates, especially its water beetles, with 64 species, including four on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, Graptodytes bilineatus, Dryops similaris, Gyrinus distinctus and Myopites inulaedyssentericae. There are diverse habitats with grassland, scrub, reedbeds, sedge, bare clay and pools.

There is access to the site by a footpath from Whitepost Road.

References

Dogsthorpe Star Pit Wikipedia


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