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Kingcup Meadows and Oldhouse Wood

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Grid reference
  
TQ030851

Location map
  
Magic Map

Notification
  
1992

Interest
  
Biological

Area of search
  
Buckinghamshire

Kingcup Meadows and Oldhouse Wood

Kingcup Meadows and Oldhouse Wood is a 13.2 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Denham in Buckinghamshire.

The site is a mosaic of different habitats next to the River Alder Bourne, including unimproved pasture and woodland. The meadows have dry and wet grassland, swamp and fen. The eastern fields are grazed by cattle and the eastern ones, which are drier, have a late hay crop. Grasses include red fescue and in drier areas and creeping bent in wetter ones. Oldhouse Wood has ash and field maple on upper slopes and oak and birch on lower ones. There are several species of dragonfly.

There is access from a road between Copse Hill Farm and Willetts Lane.

References

Kingcup Meadows and Oldhouse Wood Wikipedia