Bradgate Park and Cropston Reservoir

Further information: Bradgate Park and Cropston Reservoir

Bradgate Park and Cropston Reservoir
Site of Special Scientific Interest
The River Lin in Bradgate Park
Location	Leicestershire
Grid reference	SK 533 106
Interest	Biological Geological
Area	399.7 hectares
Notification	1988
Location map	Magic Map

Bradgate Park and Cropston Reservoir is a 399.7-hectare (988-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest north–west of Leicester. It is also a Nature Conservation Review site, and Bradgate Park contains Geological Conservation Review sites and a Scheduled Monument.

Bradgate Park has one of the best examples of ancient parkland in the county, and Cropston Reservoir has unusual plants on its shores. The park has Charnian rocks dating to the Ediacaran period around 600 million years ago, and it has provided the type section for four different members of the stratigraphic sequence. It is described by Natural England as "a site of great importance to the study of Precambrian palaeontology".

There are footpaths through the park and around the reservoir.

References

^ "Designated Sites View: Bradgate Park and Cropston Reservoir". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 17 September 2017.
"Map of Bradgate Park and Cropston Reservoir". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 17 September 2017.
"Bradgate Park (Precambrian of England & Wales)". Geological Conservation Review. Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
"Bradgate Park (Quaternary of Midlands - Avon)". Geological Conservation Review. Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
Historic England. "Bradgate Park (1000958)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
"Bradgate Park and Cropston Reservoir citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 September 2015. Retrieved 17 September 2017.
"Charnian Supergroup". The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units — Result Details. British Geological Survey. Retrieved 17 September 2017.

52°41′20″N 1°13′01″W / 52.689°N 1.217°W / 52.689; -1.217

v t e Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Leicestershire
Biological	Allexton Wood Ashby Canal Bardon Hill Barrow Gravel Pits Beacon Hill, Hangingstone and Outwoods Benscliffe Wood Blackbrook Reservoir Botcheston Bog Bradgate Park and Cropston Reservoir Breedon Cloud Wood and Quarry Breedon Hill Briery Wood Heronry, Belvoir Buddon Wood and Swithland Reservoir Burbage Wood and Aston Firs Cave's Inn Pits Charnwood Lodge Chater Valley Coalville Meadows Cotes Grassland Cribb's Lodge Meadows Croft Hill Croft Pasture Croxton Park Debdale Meadow, Muston Dimminsdale Donington Park Eye Brook Reservoir Eye Brook Valley Woods Frisby Marsh Grace Dieu and High Sharpley Grantham Canal Great Bowden Borrowpit Groby Pool and Woods Harby Hill Wood Holly Rock Fields Holwell Mouth Kendall's Meadow Kilby - Foxton Canal King Lud's Entrenchments and The Drift Launde Big Wood Leighfield Forest Lockington Marshes Loughborough Meadows Lount Meadows Misterton Marshes Muston Meadows Narborough Bog Newton Burgoland Marshes Oakley Wood Owston Woods Pasture and Asplin Woods River Eye River Mease Roecliffe Manor Lawns Saddington Reservoir Sheepy Fields Sheet Hedges Wood Stanford Park Stonesby Quarry Swithland Wood and The Brand Terrace Hills Pasture Twenty Acre Piece Ulverscroft Valley Wymondham Rough
Geological	Bardon Hill Quarry Beacon Hill, Hangingstone and Outwoods Bradgate Park and Cropston Reservoir Breedon Cloud Wood and Quarry Buddon Wood and Swithland Reservoir Charnwood Lodge Cliffe Hill Quarry Croft and Huncote Quarry Dimminsdale Enderby Warren Quarry Gipsy Lane Pit Grace Dieu and High Sharpley Ives Head Main Quarry, Mountsorrel Newhurst Quarry One Barrow Plantation Shepshed Cutting Sproxton Quarry Tilton Cutting

Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Leicestershire

Biological

Geological

Categories: