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Melwood Local Nature Reserve

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Type
  
Local Nature Reserve

Area
  
0.6 hectares

OS grid
  
TL 378 459

Melwood Local Nature Reserve

Location
  
Meldreth, Cambridgeshire, England

Managed by
  
Melwood Conservation Group

Melwood is a 0.6 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Meldreth in Cambridgeshire, England. It is owned by Cambridgeshire County Council and managed by the Melwood Conservation Group.

This is a woodland site next to the River Mel, with trees such as ash, hawthorn, sycamore, beech and silver birch. Ground flora include dog violet and cow parsley, while traveller's joy provides food for moths. Tawny owls and pipistrelle bats roost on ivy.

There is access by a footpath from Flambards Close.

References

Melwood Local Nature Reserve Wikipedia