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Snelsmore Common

Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife TrustParks and open spaces in BerkshireSites of Special Scientific Interest in BerkshireWest Berkshire District
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Snelsmore Common is a 104-hectare (260-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Newbury in Berkshire. It is owned by West Berkshire Council and managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.This is a country park which has diverse habitats, including dry heath, wet heath, bog, birch woods and ancient semi-natural broadleaved woodland. The bog has a 5,000 year old layer of peat which has been studied stratigraphically to show changes in ancient land use and vegetation. An area of wet alder woodland has many lichens, including a rich community which grows on trees, such as Parmelia caperarta, Pertusaria pertusa and Lecanactis abietina.

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N 51.436 ° E -1.34 °
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Snelsmore Common Country Park (SSSI)

Newbury Bypass
RG14 3AP , Shaw cum Donnington
England, United Kingdom
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