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Boxford Water Meadows

Site of Special Scientific Interest
Location within Berkshire
Location	Berkshire
Grid reference	SU 428 718
Coordinates	51°26′38″N 1°23′10″W / 51.444°N 1.386°W / 51.444; -1.386
Interest	Biological
Area	13.9 hectares (34 acres)
Notification	1986
Location map	Magic Map

Boxford Water Meadows is a 13.9-hectare (34-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Boxford in Berkshire. It is part of the Kennet & Lambourn Floodplain Special Area of Conservation.

The site comprises disused water meadows and flood pastures in the valley of the River Lambourn. Recorded flora include seventeen species of grass, seven of sedge and seventy-six of grassland herb, some of which are characteristic of ancient meadows which have not been improved or disturbed, such as devil's-bit scabious, water avens and Blysmus compressus, which is an uncommon flat-sedge. There is also a diverse insect fauna.

The site is private land with no public access.

References

1. ^ "Designated Sites View: Boxford Water Meadows". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
2. "Map of Boxford Water Meadows". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
3. "Designated Sites View: Kennet & Lambourn Floodplain". Special Areas of Conservation. Natural England. Retrieved 4 October 2019.

v t e Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Berkshire
Biological	Aldermaston Gravel Pits Ashridge Wood Avery's Pightle Bisham Woods Blackwater Valley Bowdown and Chamberhouse Woods Boxford Water Meadows Bray Meadows Bray Pennyroyal Field Briff Lane Meadows Broadmoor to Bagshot Woods and Heaths Catmore and Winterly Copses Chawridge Bourne Cleeve Hill Cock Marsh Combe Wood and Linkenholt Hanging Coombe Wood, Frilsham Croker's Hole Decoy Pit, Pools and Woods Easton Farm Meadow Enborne Copse Englemere Pond Freeman's Marsh Great Thrift Wood Greenham and Crookham Commons Heath Lake Hog's Hole Holies Down Inkpen and Walbury Hills Inkpen Common Inkpen Crocus Field Irish Hill Copse Kennet and Lambourn Floodplain Kennet Valley Alderwoods King's Copse Lardon Chase Lodge Wood and Sandford Mill Longmoor Bog Old Copse, Beenham Park Farm Down Redhill Wood River Kennet River Lambourn Sandhurst to Owlsmoor Bogs and Heaths Seven Barrows Snelsmore Common Stanford End Mill and River Loddon Streatley Warren Sulham and Tidmarsh Woods and Meadows Swinley Park and Brick Pits Thatcham Reed Beds Wasing Wood Ponds Wellington College Bog West Woodhay Down West's Meadow, Aldermaston Westfield Farm Chalk Bank White Shute Windsor Forest and Great Park Woolhampton Reed Bed Wraysbury and Hythe End Gravel Pits Wraysbury No 1 Gravel Pit Wykery Copse
Geological	Boxford Chalk Pit Brimpton Pit Cannoncourt Farm Pit Cold Ash Quarry Fognam Chalk Quarry Hamstead Marshall Pit Pincent's Kiln Winterbourne Chalk Pit

• Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Berkshire
• Special Areas of Conservation in England