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Raveley Wood

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Type
  
Nature reserve

OS grid
  
TL 244 817

Location
  
Upwood, Cambridgeshire

Area
  
5.6 hectares

Raveley Wood

Managed by
  
Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire

Raveley Wood is a 5.6 hectare nature reserve south-west of Upwood in Cambridgeshire. It is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.

Trees in this wood include oak, ash and field maple, together with some elms, although many were killed by Dutch elm disease. Invertebrates include the rare white-spotted pinion moth, which depends on elms for food for its larvae, and white-letter hairstreak butterflies. The dead elms provide a habitat for a wide variety of fungi.

There is access from Raveley Road, which runs west from the hamlet of Great Raveley.

References

Raveley Wood Wikipedia