Colerne Park and Monk's Wood () is a 53.7
hectare
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biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, England,
notified in 1951.
The site is north-east of
Colerne village, and its eastern part is in the floodplain of the small
Bybrook River
The Bybrook, also known as the By Brook, is a small river in England. It is a tributary of the Bristol Avon and is some long. Its sources are the Burton Brook and the Broadmead Brook, which rise in South Gloucestershire at Tormarton and Cold A ...
. The woodland includes
ash
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and
wych-elm
''Ulmus glabra'' Hudson, the wych elm or Scots elm, has the widest range of the European elm species, from Ireland eastwards to the Urals, and from the Arctic Circle south to the mountains of the Peloponnese and Sicily, where the species reaches ...
, and has rare plants, some of them wet-loving.
Sources
Natural England citation sheet for the site(accessed 24 March 2022)
External links
Natural England website(SSSI information)
Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire
Sites of Special Scientific Interest notified in 1951
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