High Wood and Meadow

High Wood and Meadow is a 16.5-hectare (41-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest between Farthingstone and Preston Capes in Northamptonshire.^[1][2] It is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.^[3]

High Wood and Meadow

Site of Special Scientific Interest
High Meadow
Location	Northamptonshire
Grid reference	SP 591 547[1]
Interest	Biological
Area	16.5 hectares[1]
Notification	1984[1]
Location map	Magic Map

The wood is ancient and semi-natural on acid soils. It has diverse ground flora, including yellow pimpernel, hairy wood-rush and broad-leaved helleborine. The meadow is acid grassland of a type which is now uncommon, and there are also areas of neutral grassland and marsh on silty peat. There are many ant hills of the yellow meadow ant.^[4]

There is (unsignposted) access from the Knightley Way footpath.