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Charnwood Forest is a hilly tract in north-western Leicestershire, England, ... Map showing sites in Charnwood Forest notable for wildlife and geology.
English: Map showing sites notable for wildlife and geology within Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire, UK (Area defined by Natural England NCA73). Date 26 February 2011
The remains of Junction House alongside the Charnwood Forest Canal, at the junction with the Barrow Hill branch south of Osgathorpe, in 2009. This is the last remaining building of the Charnwood Forest Canal. The now derelict Charnwood Forest Canal alongside the entrance to Longcliffe Golf Club in Nanpantan.
Map: Citation: The hill is a surviving fragment of the formerly extensive Charnwood Forest, and it has both woodland and heath. Mature oak dominates the lower slopes, with pine plantation higher up, and a mixture of heath, acid grassland, rock outcrops and scrub oak at the top.
Swithland Wood is a public woodland in Charnwood Forest, in Leicestershire. Although close to the village of Swithland, it is almost entirely within the parish of Newtown Linford, just north of Bradgate Park and also near Woodhouse Eaves and Cropston. The wood is Leicestershire's most important ancient woodland for nature conservation. [6]
This site is composed of several fragments of the formerly extensive Charnwood Forest, and it has diverse habitats of heath, woodland, rock, scrub and acid grassland. Grace Dieu Quarry exhibits a thin marine Lower Carboniferous layer of Carboniferous Limestone , close to the Midland shoreline around 340 million years ago.
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Charnwood Lodge is a 134.2-hectare (332-acre) biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Charnwood Forest, east of Coalville in Leicestershire. [1] [2] It is a national nature reserve, [3] [4] and contains two Geological Conservation Review sites. [5] [6] It is managed by the Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust. [7]