King's Copse
Site of Special Scientific Interest in Berkshire
51°25′52″N 1°10′23″W / 51.431°N 1.173°W / 51.431; -1.173
King's Copse is a 13.7-hectare (34-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest between Chapel Row and Clay Hill in Berkshire.[1][2] It is in the North Wessex Downs, which is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.[3] The site is private land but a public footpath runs through it.
Geography
King's Copse is a broadleaf, mixed and yew woodland located in a lowland area.[4]
Fauna
The site has the following animals[3]
Mammals
- Badger
Reptiles
- Grass snake
Flora
The site has the following Flora:[3][4]
Trees
- Birch
- Fraxinus
- Ulmus glabra
- Quercus robur
- Hazel
- Alder
- Acer campestre
- Holly
- Aspen
- Prunus avium
- Salix × fragilis
- Rowan
Plants
- Anemone nemorosa
- Teucrium scorodonia
- Lonicera periclymenum
- Hyacinthoides non-scripta
- Potentilla erecta
- Sanicula europaea
- Ajuga reptans
- Filipendula ulmaria
- Scrophularia nodosa
- Scrophularia aquatica
- Lychnis flos-cuculi
- Chrysosplenium oppositifolium
- Carex sylvatica
- Carex remota
- Carex strigosa
- Urtica dioica
- Oenanthe crocata
- Luzula pilosa
- Adoxa moschatellina
- Euphorbia amygdaloides
- Primula vulgaris
- Viola riviniana
- Viola reichenbachiana
- Hypericum androsaemum
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to King's Copse.
- ^ a b c d "Designated Sites View: King's Copse". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
- ^ "Map of King's Copse". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
- ^ a b c "King's Copse citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
- ^ a b "Condition of SSSI Units for Site King's Copse SSSI". Natural England. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
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- Ashridge Wood
- Avery's Pightle
- Bisham Woods
- Blackwater Valley
- Bowdown and Chamberhouse Woods
- Boxford Water Meadows
- Bray Meadows
- Bray Pennyroyal Field
- Briff Lane Meadows
- Broadmoor to Bagshot Woods and Heaths
- Catmore and Winterly Copses
- Chawridge Bourne
- Cleeve Hill
- Cock Marsh
- Combe Wood and Linkenholt Hanging
- Coombe Wood, Frilsham
- Croker's Hole
- Decoy Pit, Pools and Woods
- Easton Farm Meadow
- Enborne Copse
- Englemere Pond
- Freeman's Marsh
- Great Thrift Wood
- Greenham and Crookham Commons
- Heath Lake
- Hog's Hole
- Holies Down
- Inkpen and Walbury Hills
- Inkpen Common
- Inkpen Crocus Field
- Irish Hill Copse
- Kennet and Lambourn Floodplain
- Kennet Valley Alderwoods
- King's Copse
- Lardon Chase
- Lodge Wood and Sandford Mill
- Longmoor Bog
- Old Copse, Beenham
- Park Farm Down
- Redhill Wood
- River Kennet
- River Lambourn
- Sandhurst to Owlsmoor Bogs and Heaths
- Seven Barrows
- Snelsmore Common
- Stanford End Mill and River Loddon
- Streatley Warren
- Sulham and Tidmarsh Woods and Meadows
- Swinley Park and Brick Pits
- Thatcham Reed Beds
- Wasing Wood Ponds
- Wellington College Bog
- West Woodhay Down
- West's Meadow, Aldermaston
- Westfield Farm Chalk Bank
- White Shute
- Windsor Forest and Great Park
- Woolhampton Reed Bed
- Wraysbury and Hythe End Gravel Pits
- Wraysbury No 1 Gravel Pit
- Wykery Copse