The site is an ancient hay meadow which has a nationally rare plant community, due to its traditional management, with a hay cut followed by cattle grazing, and no use of fertilisers or herbicides. A stream, which runs through the middle of the field, regularly floods. The main plants are herbs such as great burnet and meadow sweet, and grasses include meadow foxtail and sweet vernal-grass. The meadow is surrounded by hedgerows which have a wide variety of trees and shrubs.[1]
There is access from the end of Raft Way.
References
^ ab"Oxley Mead citation"(PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
^"Map of Oxley Mead". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
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