Plashes Wood
Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
Location | Hertfordshire |
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Grid reference | TL349165 |
Interest | Biological |
Area | 19.7 hectares |
Notification | 1984 |
Location map | Magic Map |
Plashes Wood is a 71.9-hectare (178-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Standon in Hertfordshire. The local planning authority is East Hertfordshire District Council.[1][2] The wood is private property.[3]
The site is mainly oak and hornbeam woodland near the northern limit of its natural distribution. It has varied ground flora on soils from damp heavy clay to light gravels. Common plants include bramble, bluebells and dog's mercury. There are also ponds and extensive clearings dominated by bracken, and other flora including hoary cinquefoil.[1]
There is access from a footpath next to Colliers End church in Ermine Street.
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- Blagrove Common
- Bricket Wood Common
- Croxley Common Moor
- Frogmore Meadows
- Great Hormead Park
- Hertford Heath
- Hunsdon Mead
- Knebworth Woods
- Moor Hall Meadows
- Northaw Great Wood
- Oddy Hill and Tring Park
- Patmore Heath
- Plashes Wood
- Redwell Wood
- Roughdown Common
- Rye Meads
- Sarratt Bottom
- Sawbridgeworth Marsh
- Sherrardspark Wood
- Tewinbury
- Therfield Heath
- Thorley Flood Pound
- Tring Reservoirs
- Tring Woodlands
- Turnford and Cheshunt Pits
- Wain Wood
- Water End Swallow Holes
- Whippendell Wood
- Wormley-Hoddesdonpark Wood North
- Wormley-Hoddesdonpark Wood South
51°52′01″N 0°00′21″E / 51.8669°N 0.0058°E / 51.8669; 0.0058
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