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Lower Woods

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The main aims are to monitor the maintenance and enhancement of existing grassland areas, the coppice regimes and to remove exotic species of conifer and hybrid poplar. Coppice must be maintained at-standards. Scrub cutting is done in the original trenches, ensuring exposure of the old wood banks
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time period). These would have been laid down some 200 million years ago in a shallow sea. The exposures in this area have been a source of research for some 150 years, notably the units called the Westbury Beds, the Cotham Beds and the
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Fuller information is available from the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust nature reserves handbook and the Trust publication on the natural history of the site. Large parts of the woodland are traditional coppice-with-standards, with
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This large reserve is made up of twenty-three woods and coppices, the boundaries of which have remained unchanged for several centuries. The woods are linked by a network of grass trenches and ridges. The
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Kelham, A, Sanderson, J, Doe, J, Edgeley-Smith, M, et al, 1979, 1990, 2002 editions, 'Nature Reserves of the Gloucestershire Trust for Nature Conservation/Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust'
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runs through the centre of the site. The woods are situated in the damp clay soils of the Vale of Berkeley and are made up of the distinct woodlands as well as grassland areas.
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Martin M, Rowlatt, S (editors), 2001(published), 'The Natural History of Lower Woods in 2000 AD', Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, (includes list of contributors)
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Martin M, Rowlatt, S (editors), 2001(published), 'The Natural History of Lower Woods in 2000 AD', Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, (includes list of contributors)
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and outcrops of conglomeratic bone-beds (in the Westbury shales). The latter contain a significant amount of fossil fish, and sedimentological features.
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in 1966 and renotified in 1985. The site area has increased at last revision in 1974 to a 284.1-hectare (702-acre) site. The site is a
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Fuller information is available from the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust nature reserves handbook. Typical woodland flowers include
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Martin M (editor), 1996, 2004 (revised second edition), 'Lower Woods Nature Reserve – A Guide', Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust
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2011, 'Nature Reserves Guide', Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, issued to celebrate its 50th Anniversary
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in particular. The site is considered as the most important in South Gloucestershire for
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The site contains significant exposures of clays, shales, limestones and bone-beds (
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Confluence of streams and a bridge on the edge of Lower Woods Nature Reserve
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Geological Sites of Special Scientific Interest in North Somerset
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biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest
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which is an indicator of ancient woodland. There is some
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Natural England SSSI information on the Lower Woods units
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Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire
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Biological Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Avon
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coppice. There is a wide range other shrubs including
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Sites of Special Scientific Interest notified in 1966
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The site has two horizons of 58: 28:Site of Special Scientific Interest 2206:Nature reserves in Gloucestershire 1433:Dean Hall Coach House & Cellar 14: 1373:Caerwood and Ashberry Goose House 863:Tickenham, Nailsea and Kenn Moors 436:Mammals, birds and invertebrates 192:) is a 280.1-hectare (692-acre) 57: 50: 34: 1658:Swanpool Wood and Furnace Grove 1413:Cotswold Commons and Beechwoods 432:and various sedges and rushes. 66:Location within Gloucestershire 2191:South Gloucestershire District 1954:Land Grove Quarry, Mitcheldean 1698:Upham Meadow and Summer Leasow 703:Burledge Sidelands and Meadows 605:Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust 214:Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust 1: 2064:Stony Furlong Railway Cutting 1884:Crickley Hill and Barrow Wake 1713:Westbury Brook Ironstone Mine 1623:Shorn Cliff and Caswell Woods 1423:Crickley Hill and Barrow Wake 1157:Portishead Pier to Black Nore 1067:Dundry Main Road South Quarry 416:. The damper rides supports 316:. There are dense stands of 1568:Pennsylvania Fields, Sedbury 1563:Old River Severn, Upper Lode 1368:Bushley Muzzard, Brimpsfield 1197:Winterbourne Railway Cutting 1172:Slickstones Quarry, Cromhall 783:Horseshoe Bend, Shirehampton 738:Congrove Field and The Tumps 384:. The grassy rides support 1508:Kingscote and Horsley Woods 793:King's Wood and Urchin Wood 2222: 1949:Knap House Quarry, Birdlip 1162:Quarry Steps, Durdham Down 798:Long Dole Wood and Meadows 2127: 2014:Oakenhill Railway Cutting 1869:Campden Tunnel Gravel Pit 1854: 1841: 1761: 1558:Old Bow and Old Ham Mines 1293: 1280: 1210: 1047:Compton Martin Ochre Mine 962: 896: 778:Hinton Charterhouse Field 733:Compton Martin Ochre Mine 653: 458:lesser spotted woodpecker 163: 45: 33: 26: 2029:Robin's Wood Hill Quarry 2009:Notgrove Railway Cutting 482:silver-washed fritillary 406:greater butterfly-orchid 364:. 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Also recorded are 446:lesser horseshoe bat 390:devil's-bit scabious 196:near the village of 2044:Scully Grove Quarry 2039:Salmonsbury Meadows 1728:Wildmoorway Meadows 1603:Salmonsbury Meadows 1418:Cotswold Water Park 1187:Tytherington Quarry 1102:Hinton Hill, Wellow 1062:Damery Road Section 1037:Cattybrook Brickpit 992:Barns Batch Spinney 982:Banwell Ochre Caves 723:Cleeve Wood, Hanham 346:early-purple orchid 118: /  23: 2131:Neighbouring areas 2019:Puddlebrook Quarry 1929:Hornsleasow Quarry 1765:Neighbouring areas 1488:Hucclecote Meadows 1483:Hornsleasow Roughs 1214:Neighbouring areas 1177:Spring Cove Cliffs 1147:Nightingale Valley 1057:Cullimore's Quarry 900:Neighbouring areas 678:Bishop's Hill Wood 612:(SSSI information) 440:The site supports 382:violet helleborine 178: 2163: 2162: 2079:The Malvern Hills 2034:Rodborough Common 1934:Huntsman's Quarry 1914:Haresfield Beacon 1899:Foss Cross Quarry 1797: 1796: 1678:The Malvern Hills 1668:Sylvan House Barn 1638:Speech House Oaks 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Site of Special Scientific Interest

Lower Woods is located in Gloucestershire
Location
Grid reference
ST743876
Coordinates
51°35′13″N 2°22′23″W / 51.587°N 2.373°W / 51.587; -2.373
Notification
Natural England website

grid reference
ST743876
biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest
Wickwar
South Gloucestershire
notified
nature reserve
Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust
ancient woodlands
Avon
South Gloucestershire
Little Avon River
Yarley Meadows
Landscape Marble
pedunculate oak
ash
hazel
field maple
holly

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