Sturt Copse

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LocationOxfordshire
InterestBiological
Area6.5 hectares (16 acres)[1]
Sturt Copse
Site of Special Scientific Interest
LocationOxfordshire
Grid referenceSP 399 150[1]
InterestBiological
Area6.5 hectares (16 acres)[1]
Notification1987[1]
Location mapMagic Map

Sturt Copse is a 6.5-hectare (16-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Oxford in Oxfordshire.[1][2]

This wood has many giant stools of coppiced of ash and wych elm trees, together with oaks, some of them pollarded. Most of the ground layer is dominated by dog's mercury, and there are uncommon plants such as yellow star-of-Bethlehem, Lathraea squamaria and hard shield-fern.[3]

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