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Port Meadow with Wolvercote Common and Green

Port Meadow with Wolvercote Common and Green

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Port Meadow with Wolvercote Common and Green is a 167.1-hectare (413-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Oxford in Oxfordshire.[1][2] It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I,[3] and part of Oxford Meadows Special Area of Conservation.[4] The remains of Godstow Abbey, which is a Scheduled Monument, are in the north of the site.[5]

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This site consists of meadows in the floodplain of the River Thames. It is thought to have been grazed for over a thousand years and is a classic site for studying the effects of grazing on flora. There is a low diversity compared with neighbouring fields which are cut for hay, but 178 flowering plants have been recorded, including creeping marshwort, which is a Red Data Book species not found anywhere else in Britain.[6]

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  1. [1]
    "Designated Sites View: Port Meadow with Wolvercote Common and Green". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
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    "Map of Port Meadow with Wolvercote Common and Green". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  3. [3]
    Ratcliffe, Derek, ed. (1977). A Nature Conservation Review. Vol. 2. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 129. ISBN 0521-21403-3.
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    "Designated Sites View: Oxford Meadows". Special Areas of Conservation. Natural England. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
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    Historic England. "Godstow Abbey: a Benedictine nunnery, associated earthworks, leats and bridge, immediately south of Godstow Bridge (1021366)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
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    "Port Meadow with Wolvercote Common and Green citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
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