Southorpe Meadow

Southorpe Meadow
Site of Special Scientific Interest

Location	Cambridgeshire
Grid reference	TF 083 031^[1]
Interest	Biological
Area	2.0 hectares (4.9 acres)^[1]
Notification	1983^[1]
Location map	Magic Map

Southorpe Meadow is a 2 hectares (4.9 acres) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Southorpe in Cambridgeshire.^[1]^[2] It is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.^[3]

This is one of the few surviving areas of neutral grassland in the county, where ridge and furrow from medieval ploughing can be seen. There is a rich variety of species, such as red fescue in drier areas, and salad burnet in damper ones.^[4]

There is access from Main Street.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Designated Sites View: Southorpe Meadow". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
^ "Map of Southorpe Meadow". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
^ "Southorpe Meadow". Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
^ "Southorpe Meadow citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 October 2012. Retrieved 30 August 2016.

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52°36′54″N 0°24′07″W / 52.615°N 0.402°W / 52.615; -0.402

Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cambridgeshire

Biological

Geological

Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire

Bedfordshire

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Central Bedfordshire	Arlesey Old Moat and Glebe Meadows Barton Gravel Pit Blow's Downs Cooper's Hill Cut-throat Meadow Dropshort Marsh Fancott Woods and Meadows Flitwick Moor King's Wood and Rammamere Heath Lancot Meadow Landpark Wood Old Warden Tunnel Pegsdon Hills and Hoo Bit The Riddy Sallowsprings Totternhoe

Cambridgeshire

Cambridge	Cherry Hinton Chalk Pits Skaters' Meadow
East Cambridgeshire	Chettisham Meadow Doghouse Grove Fordham Woods Ouse Washes Soham Meadow
Fenland	Lattersey Norwood Road
Huntingdonshire	Arthur's Meadow Brampton Wood Gamsey Wood Godmanchester Grafham Water Great Fen Houghton Meadows Lady's Wood Pingle Cutting Raveley Wood Shepherd's Close Upwood Meadows Waresley and Gransden Woods Wistow Wood Woodwalton Marsh
Peterborough	Dogsthorpe Star Pit Southorpe Meadow Southorpe Paddock Stanground Newt Ponds Stanground Wash Thorpe Wood Wansford Pasture & Standen's Pasture Woodston Ponds
South Cambridgeshire	Beechwoods Buff Wood Cambourne Fulbourn Fen Gamlingay Cinques Gamlingay Wood Hardwick Wood Hayley Wood Lower Wood Overhall Grove Shepreth L Moor Trumpington Meadows