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Barnsley Warren

CotswoldsNature Conservation Review sitesNature reserves in GloucestershireSites of Special Scientific Interest in GloucestershireSites of Special Scientific Interest notified in 1954
Pulsatilla vulgaris 'Pasque flower' (Ranunculaceae) flower
Pulsatilla vulgaris 'Pasque flower' (Ranunculaceae) flower

Barnsley Warren (grid reference SP055064) is a 61.3-hectare (151-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 1954 and renotified in 1984. The site is also included in A Nature Conservation Review. It lies in a steep-sided dry valley, east of the A429, northeast of Cirencester in the Cotswolds. The site is listed in the 'Cotswold District' Local Plan 2001-2011 (on line) as a Key Wildlife Site (KWS).Following the introduction of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act, the whole of the site was designated "access land" and is therefore open to public access. There are seven units of assessment and the Gloucestershire Pasqueflower Reserve is unit 4.

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Barnsley Warren
Stow Road, Cotswold District Ampney Crucis

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Stow Road
GL7 5EU Cotswold District, Ampney Crucis
England, United Kingdom
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Foss Cross railway station
Foss Cross railway station

Foss Cross railway station was on the Midland and South Western Junction Railway in Gloucestershire. The station opened on 1 August 1891 with the section of the line between Cirencester Watermoor and the junction at Andoversford with the Great Western Railway's Cheltenham Lansdown to Banbury line, which had opened in 1881. Foss Cross was an isolated station, and the nearest village was Chedworth, over a mile away, and that petitioned successfully for its own station, which opened just a year later. Other villages such as Bibury were up to four miles away. The result was that the station was very lightly used for passenger traffic and towards the end of its life only one passenger a day used it regularly.However, what it lacked in passengers it made up in goods traffic. The station handled much agricultural traffic until the 1930s and there was also a set of sidings leading to stone quarries. Some of the stone was used by the railway, and water from the large water tower at Cirencester Watermoor station was hauled regularly to Foss Cross sidings in rail-mounted tankers to supply the stone crushing equipment located there. Foss Cross station closed to both passengers and goods when the line closed to all traffic in 1961. The main station building and part of the platform remained in 2013, along with a cattle dock, two huts and foundations of the goods shed. In 1929 a train consisting of 67 wagons with a weight of 475 tons conveyed the dismantled Rose Cottage from Chedworth from Foss Cross to Brentford on the first part of its journey to Michigan where it was rebuilt on the instructions of Henry Ford. Today the platform remains along with two structures (see the picture of this article). The main building is very overgrown but you walk along the tree covered platform and enter via the middle door. Inside are some faded signs on the door and some men's urinals at the far end. The whole area is very overgrown but you can still see the station very clearly.