Port Meadow with Wolvercote Common and Green
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| Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
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| Location | Oxfordshire |
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| 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]
