Heath Lake
51°22′48″N 0°48′43″W / 51.380°N 0.812°W / 51.380; -0.812
Heath Lake is a 6-hectare (15-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Berkshire.[1][2] The SSSI is part of the 22.3-hectare (55-acre) Heathlake Local Nature Reserve, which is owned and managed by Wokingham Borough Council.[3][4]
Most of this 2.8-hectare (7-acre) lake is less than 1-metre (3-foot) deep. It is the only acid lake in the county which retains its characteristic plants, such as alternate water-milfoil and six-stamened waterwort. The banks are peaty and marshy in some areas. There are also small areas of woodland, dry heath and acid grassland.[5][6]
There is access from Nine Mile Ride.
Fauna
The site has the following animals[5][7]
Birds
- Cormorant
- Heron
- Mallard
- Great crested grebe
- Tufted duck
- Common kingfisher
- Coot
- Moorhen
Invertebrates
- Brown hawker
- Common darter
- Black-tailed skimmer
Flora
The site has the following Flora:[3][5]
Tree
- Scots pine
- oak
- rowan
- crab apple
- Guelder-rose
- alder buckthorn
- Salix purpurea
Plant
- Myriophyllum alterniflorum
- Elatine hexandra
- Eleogiton fluitans
- Potamogeton obtusifolius
- Potamogeton pusillus
- Littorella uniflora
- Ranunculus flammula
- Galium palustre
- Lotus uliginosus
- Mentha aquatica
- Juncus effusus
- Iris pseudacorus
- Juncus acutiflorus
- Juncus bulbosus
- Carex echinata
- Hydrocotyle vulgaris
- Anagallis tenella
- Molinia caerulea
- Erica tetralix
- Pilularia globulifera
- Equisetum fluviatile
- Ranunculus omiophyllus
- Calluna vulgaris
- Erica cinerea
- Scutellaria minor
- Succisa pratensis
References
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- ^ a b c d "Designated Sites View: Heath Lake". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
- ^ "Map of Heath Lake". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
- ^ a b "Heathlake". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
- ^ "Map of Heathlake". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
- ^ a b c "Heath Lake citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
- ^ "Heathlake - Site of Special Scientific Interest". Wokingham District Council. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
- ^ "Photo locations: Simon's Wood/Heath Lake". Sandhurst Camera Club. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
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- Aldermaston Gravel Pits
- Ashridge Wood
- Avery's Pightle
- Bisham Woods
- Blackwater Valley
- Bowdown and Chamberhouse Woods
- Boxford Water Meadows
- Bray Meadows
- Bray Pennyroyal Field
- Briff Lane Meadows
- Broadmoor to Bagshot Woods and Heaths
- Catmore and Winterly Copses
- Chawridge Bourne
- Cleeve Hill
- Cock Marsh
- Combe Wood and Linkenholt Hanging
- Coombe Wood, Frilsham
- Croker's Hole
- Decoy Pit, Pools and Woods
- Easton Farm Meadow
- Enborne Copse
- Englemere Pond
- Freeman's Marsh
- Great Thrift Wood
- Greenham and Crookham Commons
- Heath Lake
- Hog's Hole
- Holies Down
- Inkpen and Walbury Hills
- Inkpen Common
- Inkpen Crocus Field
- Irish Hill Copse
- Kennet and Lambourn Floodplain
- Kennet Valley Alderwoods
- King's Copse
- Lardon Chase
- Lodge Wood and Sandford Mill
- Longmoor Bog
- Old Copse, Beenham
- Park Farm Down
- Redhill Wood
- River Kennet
- River Lambourn
- Sandhurst to Owlsmoor Bogs and Heaths
- Seven Barrows
- Snelsmore Common
- Stanford End Mill and River Loddon
- Streatley Warren
- Sulham and Tidmarsh Woods and Meadows
- Swinley Park and Brick Pits
- Thatcham Reed Beds
- Wasing Wood Ponds
- Wellington College Bog
- West Woodhay Down
- West's Meadow, Aldermaston
- Westfield Farm Chalk Bank
- White Shute
- Windsor Forest and Great Park
- Woolhampton Reed Bed
- Wraysbury and Hythe End Gravel Pits
- Wraysbury No 1 Gravel Pit
- Wykery Copse