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Wymondham Rough
Site of Special Scientific Interest

Location	Leicestershire
Grid reference	SK 831 174
Interest	Biological
Area	6.0 hectares (15 acres)
Notification	1983
Location map	Magic Map

Wymondham Rough is a 6.0 hectares (15 acres) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) east of Stapleford in Leicestershire. The SSSI is part of the 12.5 hectare Wymondham Rough nature reserve, which is managed by the Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust.

This clay grassland has a rich flora, dominated by common bent, Yorkshire fog, false oat-grass and cock's foot. A poorly drained area has plants such as water avens, and there are drier soils in the west of the site.

There is access from a gate north of the level crossing.

References

^ "Designated Sites View: Wymondham Rough". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
"Map of Wymondham Rough". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
"Wymondham Rough". Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
"Wymondham Rough citation". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 24 November 2017.

52°44′53″N 0°46′12″W / 52.748°N 0.77°W / 52.748; -0.77

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

v t e Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust
Blaby	Croft Pasture Narborough Bog
Charnwood	Cossington Meadows Lea Meadows Loughborough Big Meadow Mountsorrel Meadows Rocky Plantation Ulverscroft Wanlip Meadows Wymeswold Meadows
Harborough	Great Merrible Wood Launde Woods Tilton Railway Cutting
Hinckley and Bosworth	Altar Stones
Melton	Cribb's Meadow Holwell Reserves Stonesby Quarry Wymondham Rough
North West Leicestershire	Charley Woods Charnwood Lodge Cloud Wood Dimminsdale Kelham Bridge
Oadby and Wigston	Lucas Marsh
Rutland	Bloody Oaks Quarry Ketton Quarry Merry's Meadows Prior's Coppice Rutland Water

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