Swineshead Wood

Swineshead Wood
Site of Special Scientific Interest

Area of Search	Bedfordshire
Grid reference	TL061668
Interest	Biological
Area	21.6 hectares
Notification	1985
Location map	Magic Map

Swineshead Wood is a 21.6 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Swineshead in Bedfordshire. It is owned by the Woodland Trust, and the local planning authority is Bedford Borough Council.^[1]^[2]

The site is wet woodland which has structural and biological diversity. The most common trees are pedunculate oak and ash and on heavy clay, and bluebells and dog's mercury dominate the ground flora.^[1]

There is access from Sandye Lane, which runs along the wood's southern border.^[2]

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References

1 2 "Swineshead Wood citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
1 2 "Map of Swineshead Wood". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 1 September 2015.

External links

Swineshead & Spanoak Woods, Woodland Trust

Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Bedfordshire

Biological	Barton Hills Blow's Down Cooper's Hill Deacon Hill Dropshort Marsh Dunstable and Whipsnade Downs Fancott Woods and Meadows Felmersham Gravel Pits Flitwick Moor Galley and Warden Hills Hanger Wood Houghton Regis Marl Lakes Kings and Bakers Woods and Heaths Kings Wood and Glebe Meadows, Houghton Conquest Knocking Hoe Marston Thrift Maulden Church Meadow Maulden Heath Maulden Wood and Pennyfather's Hill Nares Gladley Marsh Odell Great Wood Potton Wood Pulloxhill Marsh Sandy Warren Smithcombe, Sharpenhoe and Sundon Hills Southill Lake and Woods Stevington Marsh Sundon Chalk Quarry Swineshead Wood Tebworth Marsh Tilwick Meadow Totternhoe Chalk Quarry Totternhoe Knolls Wavendon Heath Ponds Yelden Meadows

Geological	Biddenham Pit Double Arches Pit Kensworth Chalk Pit Nine Acres Pit Totternhoe Stone Pit

Coordinates: 52°17′22″N 0°26′42″W / 52.289541°N 0.445122°W / 52.289541; -0.445122

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