The Bardney Limewoods, part of the Lincolnshire Limewoods National Nature Reserve is a collection of small

woodland A woodland () is, in the broad sense, land covered with trees, or in a narrow sense, synonymous with wood (or in the U.S., the ''plurale tantum'' woods), a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade (se ...

s near

Bardney Bardney is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish was 1,643 at the 2001 census increasing to 1,848 (including Southrey) at the 2011 census. The village sits on the e ...

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a Counties of England, county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-we ...

. The reserve includes about half the Limewoods in the area. Cocklode Wood, part of the Bardney Limewoods, is the best surviving spread of

medieval In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire ...

limes in England.Woodland Trust ''The test-tube tree'' Broadleaf Anon Spring 2014 p7 The Limewoods are diverse in tree species and ground species, but are dominated by the Small-leaved Lime ''

Tilia cordata ''Tilia cordata'', the small-leaved lime or small-leaved linden, is a species of tree in the family Malvaceae, native to much of Europe. Other common names include little-leaf or littleleaf linden, or traditionally in South East England, pry or p ...

''. Some have argued that the name Lincolnshire refers to lime trees (known as Lind in old English and Linden in modern German), however it is more widely held that

Lincoln Lincoln most commonly refers to: * Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), the sixteenth president of the United States * Lincoln, England, cathedral city and county town of Lincolnshire, England * Lincoln, Nebraska, the capital of Nebraska, U.S. * Lincol ...

derives from the Celtic 'Lindon' for pool and refers to the Brayford Pool. Bardney Limewoods NNR is managed by the

Forestry Commission The Forestry Commission is a non-ministerial government department responsible for the management of publicly owned forests and the regulation of both public and private forestry in England. The Forestry Commission was previously also respon ...

. A visitors centre is maintained at Chambers Wood Farm. The NNR is said to include a quarter of the county's ancient woodland. Image:Succisa pratensis, devil's bit scabious, Bardney limewoods 2018, Southrey Wood.jpg, '' Succisa pratensis'' at Southrey Wood in 2018 Image:Lythrum salicaria, purple loosestrife, Bardney Limewoods, Southrey Wood, 2018.jpg, ''

Lythrum salicaria ''Lythrum salicaria'' or purple loosestrifeFlora of NW Europe''Lythrum salicaria'' is a flowering plant belonging to the family Lythraceae. It should not be confused with other plants sharing the name loosestrife that are members of the family Pr ...

'' in Southrey Wood in 2018 Image:Lychnis flos-cuculi, ragged robin, in Bardney Limewoods, Gosling Corner, in 2018.jpg, '' Lychnis flos-cuculi'' in Gosling Corner in 2018 Image:Ajuga reptans, bugle, in Bardney Limewoods, Gosling Corner, in 2018.jpg, ''

Ajuga reptans ''Ajuga reptans'' is commonly known as bugle, blue bugle, bugleherb, bugleweed, carpetweed, carpet bugleweed, and common bugle, and traditionally but less commonly as St. Lawrence plant. It is an herbaceous flowering plant in the mint family Lami ...

'' in Gosling Corner in 2018 Image:Pyronia tithonus and Thymelicus sp, on common fleabane.jpg, '' Pulicaria dysenterica'' with two species of butterfly, in Gosling Corner in 2018 Image:Allium ursinum, wild garlic, in Bardney Limewoods in 2018.jpg, ''

Allium ursinum ''Allium ursinum'', known as wild garlic, ramsons, cowleekes, cows's leek, cowleek, buckrams, broad-leaved garlic, wood garlic, bear leek, Eurasian wild garlic or bear's garlic, is a bulbous perennial flowering plant in the amaryllis family Amary ...

'' in Gosling Corner in 2018

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* * * Forests and woodlands of Lincolnshire Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Lincolnshire Nature reserves in Lincolnshire {{Lincolnshire-geo-stub

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