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Englemere Pond

Site of Special Scientific Interest
Location within Berkshire
Location	Berkshire
Grid reference	SU 904 685
Coordinates	51°24′32″N 0°42′04″W / 51.409°N 0.701°W / 51.409; -0.701
Interest	Biological
Area	26.1 hectares (64 acres)
Notification	1983
Location map	Magic Map

Englemere Pond is a 26.1-hectare (64-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the southern outskirts of North Ascot in Berkshire. The site is also a Local Nature Reserve. It is owned by the Crown Estate and managed by Bracknell Forest Borough Council.

Geography

The nature reserve is situated between Martins Heron railway station and Ascot railway station. It features a shallow acidic lake and marsh land.

History

The land for most of its recorded history has been part of a great Royal Hunting Forest that surrounded Windsor Castle.

In 1990 the site was declared as a local nature reserve by Bracknell Forest Borough Council.

In August 2016 an unexploded old military shell was discovered in Englemere Pond and blown up in a controlled explosion by the police.

Fauna

The fauna of the reserve include the following:

Birds

• Little grebe
• Water rail
• Great spotted woodpecker
• Coal tit
• Long-tailed tit
• Goldcrest
• Nuthatch
• Treecreeper
• Jay
• Common reed bunting
• Common chiffchaff
• Eurasian blackcap
• Garden warbler
• Sedge warbler
• Eurasian reed warbler
• Spotted flycatcher
• Tawny owl
• Lesser redpoll
• Gadwall
• Northern shoveler
• Eurasian teal
• Sand martin
• Swallow

Invertebrates

• Hairy dragonfly
• Common hawker
• Golden-ringed dragonfly
• Libellula depressa
• Keeled skimmer
• Beautiful demoiselle
• Banded demoiselle
• Lestes sponsa
• Erythromma najas
• Large red damselfly
• Blue-tailed damselfly
• Enallagma cyathigerum
• Azure damselfly
• Southern Hawker
• Brown hawker
• Migrant Hawker
• Emperor dragonfly
• Downy emerald
• Brilliant emerald
• Black-tailed skimmer
• Four-spotted chaser
• Sympetrum danae
• Ruddy darter
• Common darter

Reptiles, amphibians and other vertebrates

• Grass snake
• Common toad
• Palmate newt
• Adders

Flora

The flora of the reserve include the following:

Trees

• Oak
• Scots pine
• Hornbeam
• Rowan
• Silver birch
• Willow
• Cherry
• Alder

Other

• Drosera rotundifolia
• Calluna
• Erica cinerea
• Erica tetralix
• Reed

References

1. ^ "Designated Sites View: Englemere Pond". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
2. "Map of Englemere Pond". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
3. ^ "Englemere Pond". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
4. "Map of Englemere Pond". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
5. ^ "Englemere Pond Nature Reserve leaflet" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 February 2017. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
6. "Englemere Pond: Parks to visit - Bracknell Forest Council". Bracknell-forest.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 5 February 2017. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
7. "Unexploded bomb found in Winkfield Row pond". Get Reading. 22 August 2016. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
8. ^ "Englemere Pond". Berksoc.org.uk. 20 June 2014. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
9. "The Dragonflies in Bracknell Forest Borough: Overview for the Period 1993 to 2012" (PDF). John Ward-Smith. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
10. "Englemere Pond Woodland trust". woodland trust. Retrieved 5 February 2017.

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