Port Meadow with Wolvercote Common and Green

Port Meadow with Wolvercote Common and Green

Site of Special Scientific Interest
Location	Oxfordshire
Grid reference	SP 493 086[1]
Interest	Biological
Area	167.1 hectares (413 acres)[1]
Notification	1986[1]
Location map	Magic Map

Port Meadow with Wolvercote Common and Green is a 167.1-hectare (413-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Oxford in Oxfordshire.[1][2] It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I,[3] and part of Oxford Meadows Special Area of Conservation.[4] The remains of Godstow Abbey, which is a Scheduled Monument, are in the north of the site.[5]

This site consists of meadows in the floodplain of the River Thames. It is thought to have been grazed for over a thousand years and is a classic site for studying the effects of grazing on flora. There is a low diversity compared with neighbouring fields which are cut for hay, but 178 flowering plants have been recorded, including creeping marshwort, which is a Red Data Book species not found anywhere else in Britain.[6]

References

1. "Designated Sites View: Port Meadow with Wolvercote Common and Green". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
2. "Map of Port Meadow with Wolvercote Common and Green". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
3. Ratcliffe, Derek, ed. (1977). A Nature Conservation Review. Vol. 2. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 129. ISBN 0521-21403-3.
4. "Designated Sites View: Oxford Meadows". Special Areas of Conservation. Natural England. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
5. Historic England. "Godstow Abbey: a Benedictine nunnery, associated earthworks, leats and bridge, immediately south of Godstow Bridge (1021366)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
6. "Port Meadow with Wolvercote Common and Green citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 7 April 2020.

51.774°N 1.287°W / 51.774; -1.287