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Roydon Common
Site of Special Scientific Interest

Location	Norfolk
Grid reference	TF 686 224
Interest	Biological
Area	194.9 hectares (482 acres)
Notification	1984
Location map	Magic Map

Roydon Common is a 194.9-hectare (482-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of King's Lynn in Norfolk. It is also a Grade I Nature Conservation Review site, a National Nature Reserve and a Ramsar site. It is part of the Roydon Common and Dersingham Bog Special Area of Conservation and Roydon Common and Grimston Warren nature reserve, which is managed by the Norfolk Wildlife Trust,

Designations
Ramsar Wetland
Official name	Roydon Common
Designated	5 March 1993
Reference no.	588

Ecology

The common is described by Natural England as "one of the best examples in Britain of a lowland mixed valley mire". It has diverse habitats, including wet acid heath, calcareous fen and dry heath on acid sands. There are rare plants, birds and insects, including the black darter dragonfly.

Uncommon plant species include black bogrush, marsh fern, cranberry, bog asphodel, common cotton-grass, all three species of sundew and sphagnum moss. The common also supports some uncommon dragonfly species such as the broad-bodied chaser. Many species of flowers grow in grassy clearings on the drier ground which attract butterflies such as green and purple hairstreaks and brown argus.

Access

There is access by footpaths including one from Pott Row which runs along the southern boundary

References

^ "Designated Sites View: Roydon Common". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 31 May 2018.
"Map of Roydon Common". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 31 May 2018.
Ratcliffe, pp. 130–31, 212–13
"Designated Sites View: Roydon Common". National Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 31 May 2018.
"Designated Sites View: Roydon Common". Ramsar Site. Natural England. Retrieved 31 May 2018.
"Designated Sites View: Roydon Common and Dersingham Bog". Special Area of Conservation. Natural England. Retrieved 31 May 2018.
"Roydon Common and Grimston Warren". Norfolk Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
"Roydon Common". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
"Roydon Common citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 31 May 2018.

52°46′23″N 0°30′04″E / 52.773°N 0.501°E / 52.773; 0.501

v t e Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Norfolk
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Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Norfolk

Biological

Geological

v t e Norfolk Wildlife Trust
Breckland	East Wretham Heath Foxley Wood Hoe Rough Honeypot Wood Lolly Moor Narborough Railway Line New Buckenham Common Scarning Fen Sparham Pools Thompson Common Wayland Wood Weeting Heath
Broadland	Booton Common Cockshoot Broad Ranworth Broad Thorpe Marshes Upton Broad and Marshes
Great Yarmouth	Martham Broad
King's Lynn and West Norfolk	East Winch Common Holme Dunes Ringstead Downs Roydon Common and Grimston Warren Syderstone Common
North Norfolk	Alderfen Broad Barton Broad Cley Marshes Hickling Broad Pigneys Wood Salthouse Marshes Thursford Wood
South Norfolk	Hethel Old Thorn Lower Wood, Ashwellthorpe

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