Cleaves Wood

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Coordinates: 51°19′01″N 2°20′55″W / 51.31699°N 2.34863°W / 51.31699; -2.34863
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Cleaves Wood
Notification
1988 (1988)
Natural England website

Cleaves Wood (

notified
in 1988.

Cleaves Wood is an ancient, semi-natural deciduous woodland on oolitic limestone. It has a high diversity of tree and shrub species and a large population of the nationally scarce plant spiked star-of-Bethlehem (Ornithogalum pyrenaicum). There are also areas of grassland which is lightly grazed by rabbits and is a mosaic of close grazed and rough swards, and wetter areas.[1]

The scarce plants found here include the

wild daffodil.[3]

The

Xanthogramma citrofasciatum, and a number of beetle species.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b English Nature citation sheet for the site. Retrieved 16 July 2006.
  2. ISBN 1-874357-18-8
    page 252
  3. ISBN 1-874357-18-8
    page 247
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