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A hay meadow is an area of land set aside for the production of hay.In Britain hay meadows are typically meadows with high botanical diversity supporting a diverse assemblage of organisms ranging from soil microbes, fungi, arthropods including many insects through to small mammals such as voles and their predators, and up to insectivorous birds and bats.
North Meadow, Cricklade (grid reference) is a hay meadow near the town of Cricklade, in Wiltshire, England. It is 24.6 hectares in size. It is a traditionally managed lowland hay-meadow, or lammas land , and is grazed in common between 12 August and 12 February each year, and cut for hay no earlier than 1 July.
South Yorkshire shown within the UK. This is a list of Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) in South Yorkshire, United Kingdom.As of 2009, There are 35 sites designated within this Area of Search, of which 18 have been designated due to their biological interest, 14 due to its geological interest, and 3 for both biological and geological interest. [1]
Grains o' th' Beck Meadows is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Teesdale district of south-west County Durham, England. It consists of three traditionally-managed hay meadows in Upper Lunedale , on the north bank of the River Lune , a little under 6 km upstream of the Selset Reservoir dam.
The meadows have been managed for hay making for many centuries. They support over 240 species of flowering plants , including the rare snake's-head fritillary . The site is an outstanding floristically-diverse mesotrophic grassland where traditional late hay cutting and aftermath grazing has been perpetuated, largely unaffected by modern ...
Aules Hill Meadows is the name given to a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Northumberland, England. The site, listed since 1992, is a set of four traditionally managed northern hay meadows, now rare in Northumberland.
The site has been farmed since Domesday, and is currently managed as neutral hay meadows. The damp northern field has plants typical of periodically waterlogged fields, such as creeping bent and marsh foxtail. [175] Totteridge Fields: 6.92 hectares (17.1 acres) Barnet
Fewer than 15,000 hectares (37,000 acres) of lowland meadows remain in the UK and most sites are relatively small and fragmented. 25% of the UK's meadows are found in Worcestershire, with Foster's Green Meadow managed by the Worcestershire Wildlife Trust being a major site. [5] A similar concept to the hay meadow is the pasture, which differs ...