Inkpen Common SSSI

51°22′30″N 1°27′14″W / 51.375°N 1.454°W / 51.375; -1.454InterestBiologicalArea12.8 hectares (32 acres)^[1]Notification1983^[1]Location mapMagic Map

Inkpen Common or Inkpen Great Common is a 12.8-hectare (32-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Inkpen in Berkshire.^[1]^[2] It is managed as a nature reserve by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.^[3]

This is a surviving fragment of the former Inkpen Common is located between the hamlets of Hell Corner and Inkpen Common. It is mainly damp heathland, with small areas of marsh, woods and bracken. Flora on the heath include purple moor grass, common gorse, lousewort, lesser dodder and the only surviving colony in Berkshire of pale heath violet.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Designated Sites View: Inkpen Common". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
^ "Map of Inkpen Common". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
^ "Inkpen Common". Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
^ "Inkpen Common citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 17 October 2019.

Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Berkshire

Biological

Geological

Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust

Berkshire

Bracknell Forest	Chawridge Bank Wildmoor Heath
Slough	Haymill Valley
West Berkshire	Audrey's Meadow Avery's Pightle Bowdown Woods Bucklebury Common Decoy Heath Greenham and Crookham Commons Hosehill Lake Inkpen Common Inkpen Crocus Field Kintbury Newt Ponds Moor Copse Nature Discovery Centre Padworth Common Local Nature Reserve Paices Wood Country Parkland Rack Marsh Seven Barrows Snelsmore Common Country Park Sole Common Pond Thatcham Reed Beds Watts Bank Wokefield Common
Windsor and Maidenhead	Hurley Chalk Pit
Wokingham	Loddon Nature Reserve Shepperlands Farm

Buckinghamshire

Aylesbury Vale	Aston Clinton Ragpits Bernwood Meadows Calvert Jubilee College Lake Dancersend with Pavis Woods Finemere Wood Foxcote Reservoir Hog and Hollowhill Woods Pilch Fields Rushbeds Wood Upper Ray Meadows Weston Turville Reservoir Yoesden
Chiltern	Long Grove Wood
Milton Keynes	Little Linford Wood
Wycombe	Bacombe Hill Gomm Valley Grangelands and The Rifle Range Homefield Wood Millfield Wood

Oxfordshire

Cherwell	Ardley Wood Quarry Asham Meads Hook Norton Cutting Lamb's Pool Oxey Mead Whitecross Green Wood Woodford Bottom and Lamb's Pool Woodsides Meadow
Oxford	CS Lewis Nature Reserve Iffley Meadows
South Oxfordshire	Chinnor Hill Cholsey Marsh Hartslock Oakley Hill Sydlings Copse Warren Bank Wells Farm
Vale of White Horse	Dry Sandford Pit Hitchcopse Pit Lashford Lane Fen Letcombe Valley Parsonage Moor Tuckmill Meadow Warburg Nature Reserve
West Oxfordshire	Blenheim Farm Chimney Meadows Foxholes Glyme Valley Westwell Gorse