Wasing Wood Ponds
51°21′58″N 1°10′05″W / 51.366°N 1.168°W / 51.366; -1.168
Wasing Wood Ponds is a 13.5-hectare (33-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Aldermaston in Berkshire.[1][2]
The ponds are special for their range of Odonata.[3]
Geography
The site is a group of ponds, wet ditches and marshy areas partly in the Woods and partly on open ground formerly excavated for gravel.[3]
It is in two different areas, which are private land, but a public footpath crosses one of them.
Fauna
The site has the following animals[3][4]
Invertebrates
- Cordulia aenea
- Brilliant emerald
- Sympetrum sanguineum
- Erythromma najas
Flora
The site has the following Flora:[4]
Trees
- Birch
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wasing Wood Ponds.
- ^ a b c d "Designated Sites View: Wasing Wood Ponds". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
- ^ "Map of Wasing Wood Ponds". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
- ^ a b c "Wasing Wood Ponds citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
- ^ a b "Condition of SSSI Units for Site Wasing Wood Ponds SSSI". Natural England. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
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- Aldermaston Gravel Pits
- 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