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Kennet and Lambourn Floodplain
Biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, England From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Kennet and Lambourn Floodplain is a 23.4-hectare (58-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in six widely separated areas in the floodplains of the River Lambourn in Berkshire and the River Kennet in Wiltshire, England.[1][2] It is a Nature Conservation Review site[1] and part of the Kennet and Lambourn Floodplain Special Area of Conservation.[3] One of the areas, Rack Marsh, is managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.[4]
These six areas all have fen or swamp with large numbers of Desmoulin's whorl snail, which is listed in the British Red Data Book as it is a nationally rare and declining species. One of the areas, Eddington Marsh, also has unimproved species-rich grassland with several nationally scarce invertebrates, such as the flies Pherbellia griseola, Psacadina verbekei, Platypalpus niger and Oxycera morrisi.[5]
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Locations
- SU316705 51.4321°N 1.5454°W
- SU402737 51.4604°N 1.4213°W
- SU345687 51.4158°N 1.5038°W
- SU435701 51.4278°N 1.3743°W
- SU453692 51.4195°N 1.3485°W
- SU450674 51.4034°N 1.3530°W
- Location SU556655 51.3853°N 1.2009°W is shown as a seventh area in the citation, but the citation also says that there are only six areas in the site[5] and it is not shown on the Natural England map.[2]
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