Eelmoor Marsh

LocationHampshire

Grid referenceSU 840 534^[1]

InterestBiological

Area66.3 hectares (164 acres)^[1]

Eelmoor Marsh

Site of Special Scientific Interest
Location	Hampshire
Grid reference	SU 840 534[1]
Interest	Biological
Area	66.3 hectares (164 acres)[1]
Notification	1993[1]
Location map	Magic Map

Eelmoor Marsh is a 66.3-hectare (164-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest between Fleet and Farnborough in Hampshire.^[1][2] It is part of Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area for the conservation of wild birds.^[3]

This site has a bog with deep peat, grass heath, woodland and a network of ditches. The bog has more than 250 species of flowering plants and grasses, including the insectivorous common butterwort, pale butterwort, small bladderwort and common sundew. There is also a diverse invertebrate fauna.^[4]

Eelmoor Marsh has been managed by Marwell Wildlife since 1995,^[5] including conservation grazing using the endangered Przewalski's horse and as a site for the reintroduction of the sand lizard, one of the U.K.'s rarest reptiles^[6]