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Whittlesford Thriplow Hummocky Fields

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Biological

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Management
  
Natural England

Grid reference
  
TL 447 484

Area
  
55.6 hectares

Notification
  
1987

Whittlesford - Thriplow Hummocky Fields

Whittlesford - Thriplow Hummocky Fields is a 55.6 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest between Whittlesford and Thriplow in Cambridgeshire.

This site has two unusual species, the nationally rare grass-poly, which is only found in south Cambridgeshire on the British mainland, and the nationally uncommon fairy shrimp chirocephalus diaphanus. They are found in shallow hollows in arable fields, which are the result of ice lenses melting at the end of the last ice age. There are also uncommon liverworts.

The site is private land with no public access. Some areas can be viewed from Newton Road, but these are flat cultivated fields.

References

Whittlesford - Thriplow Hummocky Fields Wikipedia


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