Padworth Common Local Nature Reserve

Padworth Common Local Nature Reserve
Type	Local Nature Reserve
Location	Padworth Common, Berkshire
OS grid	SU 619 646
Area	28 hectares (69 acres)
Managed by	Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust

Padworth Common Local Nature Reserve is a 28-hectare (69-acre) Local Nature Reserve on the edge of the hamlet of Padworth Common, between Reading and Newbury in Berkshire. It is owned by West Berkshire Council and managed by Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.[1][2][3]

Geography and site

The site is served by a network of paths that run through a variety of habitats, including heathland, woodland, ponds and wet alder-lined gullies.[4] The woodland is based in the north of the site, with heathland in the south.[3]

History

Padworth Common was given its nature reserve status in 2005 by Newbury District Council.[1]

In 2013 the management of the nature reserve was transferred from West Berkshire Council to the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.[5]

Fauna

The site has the following fauna:[3][1][6]

Reptiles and amphibians

• Vipera berus
• Grass snake
• Anguis fragilis
• Common frog
• Common toad
• Palmate newt
• Smooth newt

Invertebrates

• Grayling
• Cicindela campestris
• Bog bush-cricket
• Golden-ringed dragonfly
• Downy emerald
• Common hawker
• Purple hairstreak
• Limenitis camilla

Birds

• European nightjar
• Dartford warbler
• Tree pipit
• European stonechat
• Woodlark
• European green woodpecker
• Eurasian siskin
• Goldcrest
• Little grebe
• Moorhen
• Common buzzard
• Woodcock
• Tawny owl
• Little owl
• Eurasian treecreeper
• Eurasian nuthatch
• Hobby
• Willow warbler
• Garden warbler
• Common whitethroat
• Common chiffchaff
• Eurasian blackcap
• Common firecrest
• Spotted flycatcher
• Redwing
• Fieldfare
• Lesser redpoll

References

1. "Padworth Common". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
2. "Map of Padworth Common". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
3. "Padworth Common". Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
4. Padworth Common - Nature Reserve in Thatcham, West Berkshire - South East England
5. Wildlife trust set to run West Berkshire nature reserves - Get Reading
6. Padworth and Burghfield Commons

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