Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
Location | Cambridgeshire |
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Grid reference | TL 262 548 [1] |
Interest | Biological |
Area | 54.2 hectares [1] |
Notification | 1983 [1] |
Location map | Magic Map |
Waresley and Gransden Woods is a 50-hectare (120-acre) nature reserve between Waresley and Great Gransden in Cambridgeshire, England. It is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. The site is a 54.2-hectare (134-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest called Waresley Wood, with slightly different boundaries (but including Gransden Wood). [2] [1] [3]
This ancient woodland is mainly ash, field maple and hazel. There are also rides with diverse flora such as the herbs bush vetch, meadowsweet, greater burnet-saxifrage and self-heal. [4]
There is access by a path from Waresley Road.