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A hay meadow is an area of land set aside for the production of hay.In Britain hay meadows are typically meadows with high botanical diversity supporting a diverse assemblage of organisms ranging from soil microbes, fungi, arthropods including many insects through to small mammals such as voles and their predators, and up to insectivorous birds and bats.
In the North Pennines National Landscape area are: 40% of the UK's upland hay meadows; 30% of England's upland heathland and 27% of its blanket bog; 80% of England's black grouse (and also breeding short-eared owl, ring ouzel, common snipe and common redshank); 36% of the National Landscape area is designated as Sites of Special Scientific ...
It is located in Cumbria, England, 3km south of Shap village and 300m northeast of Wet Sleddale Reservoir.. Wet Sleddale Meadows is a hay meadow grassland that has a high diversity of plant species including oxeye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare), pignut (Conopodium majus) and three species of lady's-mantle (Alchemilla filicaulis, Alchemilla xanthochlora and Alchemilla glabra).
The landscape has changed little in the last 150 years. The fields are currently managed as neutral hay meadows. The northern field is damp and has plants typical of periodically waterlogged fields, such as creeping bent and marsh foxtail. Mammals on the site include woodmice, field voles and roe deer. [3]
It is the Trust's largest meadow nature reserve, with an area of 16 hectares (40 acres). [2] Far Starling Bank, a meadow in the reserve, is a Site of Special Scientific Interest. [3] It is a hay meadow, with plant species including crested dog's-tail, meadow vetchling, sweet vernal-grass and burnet saxifrage. In recent years, hay from Far ...
Grains o' th' Beck Meadows is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Teesdale district of south-west County Durham, England. It consists of three traditionally-managed hay meadows in Upper Lunedale , on the north bank of the River Lune , a little under 6 km upstream of the Selset Reservoir dam.
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Arrandene Open Space is a large area of pasture divided by ancient hedgerows, and it is one of London's rare traditionally managed old hay meadows. It contains numerous uncommon plant species characteristic of unimproved grassland, such as greater bird's-foot trefoil, common knapweed and ox-eye daisy. [2] [3]