Grantham Canal SSSI

Grantham Canal SSSI is a 9.5-hectare (23-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest which runs along a stretch of the Grantham Canal and its banks between Redmile and Harby in Leicestershire.^[1][2]

Grantham Canal SSSI

Site of Special Scientific Interest
Location	Leicestershire
Grid reference	SK 766 339[1]
Interest	Biological
Area	9.5 hectares[1]
Notification	1983[1]
Location map	Magic Map

This site has diverse aquatic and terrestrial habitats, which supports a varied insect community. The canal has floating plants such as fat duckweed and water fern, and there are breeding birds such as sedge warblers, moorhens and reed warblers.^[3]

There is access to the canal towpath.