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East Harnham Meadows (grid reference) is a 17.29 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, England, in the Harnham suburb to the south-east of the city of Salisbury. [1] The water-meadows are in the flood-plain of the River Avon. The site was notified in 1995 for its herb-rich grassland. [2]
Salisbury District Hospital is in the parish about 1 mile (1.6 km) southwest of the village. A Park and Ride bus service for journeys to Salisbury operates from a site on the A338 near the village. [35] Britford Water Meadows is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest.
Britford Water Meadows. Britford Water Meadows (grid reference) is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest at Britford, south of Salisbury in Wiltshire. It has an area of 45 acres (18 ha) and was notified in 1975.
Modern maps, however, label the drain as the River Itchen. [34] A leat from this stretch was created at around the time of the construction of the canal to provide water for the Twyford Mead water meadows. Farming of the water meadows continued until around 1930, after the closure of the navigation itself.
Water Meadows" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 14 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 842– 846. Includes detailed description of bedwork and catchwork water-meadows. Upper Test Valley Description of the upper River Test valley in southern England, including description of catchwork water-meadows. Harnham Water Meadows Includes animation of water flow.
Harnham is a suburb in the southwest of Salisbury and is linked to the city by road via the Ayleswade Bridge in East Harnham, originally built across the Avon in 1244, and by foot via the Town Path across the "historic and important landscape" [19] of the Harnham Water Meadows in West Harnham.
Salisbury (/ ˈ s ɔː l z b ər i / SAWLZ-bər-ee, locally / ˈ s ɔː z b ər i / SAWZ-bər-ee) is a cathedral city and civil parish in Wiltshire, England with a population of 41,820, [1] at the confluence of the rivers Avon, Nadder and Bourne.
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