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Wangford Warren and Carr

Site of Special Scientific Interest
Location	Suffolk
Grid reference	TL 755 839
Interest	Biological
Area	67.8 hectares
Notification	1985
Location map	Magic Map

Wangford Warren and Carr is a 67.8-hectare (168-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest between Brandon and Lakenheath in Suffolk. It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I, and part of the Breckland Special Area of Conservation, and Special Protection Area An area of 15 hectares is managed as a nature reserve by the Suffolk Wildlife Trust

The site includes the "best preserved system of active sand dunes in Breckland". This habitat is described by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee as Inland dunes with open Corynephorus and Agrostis grasslands and is the only site of this kind in the United Kingdom. There is a range of habitats, including bare sand, Breckland heath and grasslands, fen, damp grassland and carr. Colonising species such as the rare grey hair-grass Corynephorus canescens, which is found at only three inland sites in England, and the moss Polytrichum piliferum are found in areas at Wangford Warren. At least nine different lichen species are found on the heath as well as a number of grass and heather species and plants such as gorse and hawthorn. The fen and carr areas include species such as purple moor grass Molinia cerulean, willow, alder and silver birch. The site is an example of colonization processes, showing the sequence from bare sand to heathland.

The Suffolk Wildlife Trust site is alongside the A1065 road. It has no visitor facilities and access is not allowed between March and August each year.

References

1. ^ "Designated Sites View: Wangford Warren and Carr". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
2. "Map of Wangford Warren and Carr". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
3. Ratcliffe, Derek, ed. (1977). A Nature Conservation Review. Vol. 2. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 134. ISBN 0521 21403 3.
4. "Breckland". Special Areas of Conservation. Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
5. ^ "Designated Sites View: Breckland". Special Area of Conservation. Natural England. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
6. "Designated Sites View: Breckland". Special Protection Area. Natural England. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
7. "Special Protection Areas under the EC Birds Directive. Breckland" (PDF). Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
8. ^ "Wangford Warren". Suffolk Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 1 May 2017.
9. ^ Wangford Warren and Carr, SSSI citation, Natural England. Retrieved 2013-03-03.

52°25′N 0°35′E / 52.42°N 0.58°E / 52.42; 0.58

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