Barkway Chalk Pit

Barkway Chalk Pit is a small (0.3 hectare) nature reserve in

North Hertfordshire District Council, were to return to Council management as the Trust was no longer able to meet the cost.^[2]

The site has been designated a Regionally important geological site (RIGS) by the Hertfordshire RIGS Group.^[3] It exposes a chalk block which is out of position because it was displaced by the Anglian ice sheet which covered Hertfordshire around 450,000 years ago.^[3] The vegetation is chalk scrub, and there are many species of birds, including yellowhammer, spotted flycatcher, blue tit and tawny owl.^[1]

The entrance to the site is a short distance along an unnamed road which goes north from the junction of The Joint and Royston Road.

References

^ ^a ^b "Barkway Chalk Pit". Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust. Archived from the original on 27 April 2015. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
^ "North Herts District Council takes back management of three Trust nature reserves". Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust. 15 February 2016. Archived from the original on 4 April 2016. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
^ ^a ^b "A Geological Conservation Strategy for Hertfordshire" (PDF). Hertfordshire RIGS Group. 2003. p. 28. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 January 2010.

52°00′40″N 0°00′41″E / 52.011093°N 0.011493°E / 52.011093; 0.011493

[WT-1] "Barkway Chalk Pit". Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust. Archived from the original on 27 April 2015. Retrieved 4 April 2016.

[2] "North Herts District Council takes back management of three Trust nature reserves". Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust. 15 February 2016. Archived from the original on 4 April 2016. Retrieved 4 April 2016.

[RIGS-3] "A Geological Conservation Strategy for Hertfordshire" (PDF). Hertfordshire RIGS Group. 2003. p. 28. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 January 2010.

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v t e Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust
Dacorum	Aldbury Nowers Alpine Meadow Long Deans Tring Reservoirs
East Hertfordshire	Amwell Quarry Balls Wood Danemead Hertford Heath Hunsdon and Eastwick Meads King's Meads Patmore Heath Rye Meads Tewin Orchard and Hopkyns Wood Tewinbury Thorley Wash Waterford Heath Willowmead
Hertsmere	Hilfield Park Reservoir
North Hertfordshire	Ashwell Quarry and Quarry Springs Blagrove Common Fox Covert Hawkins Wood Hexton Chalk Pit Oughtonhead Purwell Ninesprings
Stevenage	Ridlins Mire
Three Rivers	Frogmore Meadows Longspring Wood Stocker's Lake
Watford	Cassiobury Park
Welwyn Hatfield	Fir and Pond Woods Gobions Wood Lemsford Springs Stanborough Reedmarsh Stocking Springs Wood
Hillingdon	Broadwater Lake Old Park Wood Uxbridge Alderglade
Former reserves	Barkway Chalk Pit Darland's Lake Nature Reserve Hill End Pit Marshalls Heath Pryor's Wood Rowley Green Common Sawbridgeworth Marsh Telegraph Hill