Ron Ward's Meadow With Tadley Pastures
Ron Ward's Meadow With Tadley Pastures is a site of Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). It is based on the edge of Tadley in Hampshire, England.[1] It is managed by the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust.[2]
Geography
Ron Ward's Meadow With Tadley Pastures covers an area of 11.3 hectares.[3] The SSSI is an area of unimproved meadows which is managed for hay production.[4] The main part of the site is meadows which are on a south-facing hillside sloping down towards Honeywell Brook.[3] The meadows sit on a mixture of Bracklesham Beds, Lower Bagshot sands and alluvium.[3] Opposite the meadows are two fields, which form the final part of the SSSI.[3]
History
The site was given to the trust as a legacy by Ron Ward.[5] The area was classed in 1991 as a Site of Special Scientific Interest.[1]
Fauna
The site has the following fauna:[3][6]
Mammals
Birds
Amphibians
Invertebrates
Flora
The site has the following flora:[3][6][5][7]
Trees
Plants
- Yarrow
- Sneezewort
- Common bent
- Bugle
- Bog pimpernel
- Sweet vernal grass
- False oat-grass
- Mugwort
- Quaking-grass
- Meadow brome
- Harebell
- Cuckooflower
- Distant sedge
- Brown sedge
- Common yellow-sedge
- Star sedge
- Glaucous sedge
- Hairy sedge
- smooth-stalked sedge
- Common sedge
- Oval sedge
- Pale sedge
- Carnation sedge
- Pill sage
- Common knapweed
- Meadow thistle
- Marsh thistle
- Crested dog's-tail
- Common spotted orchid
- Heath spotted-orchid
- Southern marsh-orchid
- Field horsetail
- Red fescue
- Meadowsweet
- Snakeshead fritillary
- Cut-leaved crane's-bill
- Dyer's greenweed
- Yorkshire fog
- Marsh pennywort
- Cats ear
- Yellow iris
- Field scabious
- Bitter vetch
- Meadow vetchling
- Oxeye daisy
- Common bird's-foot trefoil
- Greater bird's-foot trefoil
- Field wood-rush
- Ragged robin
- Purple moor-grass
- Wood melick
- Hemlock water-dropwort
- Adder's-tongue
- Green-winged orchid
- Common lousewort
- Ribwort plantain
- Tormentil
- Cowslip
- Common fleabane
- Meadow buttercup
- Great yellow-cress
- Common sorrel
- Greater burnet
- Saw-wort
- Betony
- Lesser stitchwort
- Devil's-bit scabious
- Goat's-beard
- Red clover
- Marsh arrowgrass
- Marsh valerian
- Germander speedwell
- Hairy tare
- Narrow-leaved vetch
- Common vetch
References
- ^ a b "Ron Ward's Meadow With Tadley Pastures". Protected Planet.
- ^ "Visit Ron Ward's meadow". www.vizitit.com.
- ^ a b c d e f "Site:Ron Ward's Meadow With Tadley Pastures" (PDF). Natural England.
- ^ "1A: Pamber and Tadley Plantations and Heath" (PDF). Hampshire County Integrated Character Assessment.
- ^ a b "Restricted Access Nature Reserves - Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust". www.hiwwt.org.uk.
- ^ a b "Ron Ward's Meadow, Tadley – 25 May 2014 – Reading & District Natural History Society".
- ^ "Flora News - Autumn 2009" (PDF). Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust.
