Burgh Hill Farm Meadow
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Burgh Hill Farm Meadow is a biological
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west of
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in
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. This meadow is managed to encourage wildlife and 67 species of flowering plants have been recorded, such as
yellow rattle ''Rhinanthus minor'', known as yellow rattle, is a herbaceous wildflower in the genus ''Rhinanthus'' in the family Orobanchaceae (the broomrapes). It has circumpolar distribution in Europe, Russia, western Asia, and northern North America. An an ...
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pepper saxifrage ''Silaum silaus'', commonly known as pepper-saxifrage, is a perennial plant in the family Apiaceae (Umbelliferae) (the carrot family) found across south-eastern, central, and western Europe, including the British Isles. It grows in damp grasslan ...
and green winged orchid. The site also has a ditch, two small ponds and mature hedgerows. The site is private land with no public access.


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{{SSSIs East Sussex Sites of Special Scientific Interest in East Sussex Chiddingly