Hisehope Burn Valley
54°49′21″N 1°55′56″W / 54.82250°N 1.93222°W / 54.82250; -1.93222
Hisehope Burn Valley is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Derwentside district of Durham, England. It consists of two separate parcels of land, one on the west bank of Hisehope Burn, the other (and larger) a few hundred yards to the east, straddling the headwaters of another small burn. The site is some 3 km west of the village of Castleside and 1 km north of the Smiddy Shaw Reservoir. The larger area adjoins the Muggleswick, Stanhope and Edmundbyers Commons and Blanchland Moor SSSI.
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The area adjacent to Hisehope Burn is predominantly a soligenous mire, with a sparse tree cover of downy birch, Betula pubescens, and alder, Alnus glutinosa; the mire is rich in sedges, Carex spp and bryophytes and contains several species that are localised in County Durham, including few-flowered spike rush, Eleocharis quinqueflora, grass-of-Parnassus, Parnassia palustris, sundew, Drosera rotundifolia, and lesser clubmoss, Selaginella selaginoides. [1]
The other area has one of the most extensive stands of juniper, Juniperus communis, in County Durham. Unlike most populations of juniper in Britain, in which regeneration is, at best, sparse, this community is freely-regenerating and has a diverse age composition.[1]
References
- ^ a b "Hisehope Burn Valley : Reasons for SSSI status" (PDF). Natural England. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
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- Backstone Bank and Baal Hill Woods
- Baldersdale Woodlands
- Bishop Middleham Quarry
- Bollihope, Pikestone, Eggleston and Woodland Fells
- Botany Hill
- Bowes Moor
- Bowlees and Friar House Meadows
- Brasside Pond
- Brignall Banks
- Burnhope Burn
- Butterby Oxbow
- Cassop Vale
- Castle Eden Dene
- Causey Bank Mires
- Charity Land
- Close House Mine
- Cornriggs Meadows
- Cotherstone Moor
- Crag Gill
- Crime Rigg and Sherburn Hill Quarries
- Dabble Bank
- Derwent Gorge and Horsleyhope Ravine
- Durham Coast
- Fairy Holes Cave
- Far High House Meadows
- Fishburn Grassland
- Foster's Hush
- Frog Wood Bog
- God's Bridge
- Grains o' th' Beck Meadows
- Green Croft and Langley Moor
- Greenfoot Quarry
- Hannah's Meadows
- Hawthorn Dene
- Hawthorn Quarry
- Hell Kettles
- Hesledon Moor East
- Hesledon Moor West
- Hexhamshire Moors
- Hisehope Burn Valley
- Hulam Fen
- Hunder Beck Juniper
- Kilmond Scar
- Low Redford Meadows
- Lune Forest
- Mere Beck Meadows
- Middle Crossthwaite
- Middle Side and Stonygill Meadows
- Middleton Quarry
- Middridge Quarry
- Moorhouse and Cross Fell
- Muggleswick, Stanhope and Edmundbyers Commons and Blanchland Moor
- Neasham Fen
- Newton Ketton Meadow
- Old Moss Lead Vein
- Park End Wood
- Pig Hill
- Pike Whin Bog
- Pittington Hill
- Pow Hill Bog
- Quarrington Hill Grasslands
- Railway Stell West
- Raisby Hill Grassland
- Raisby Hill Quarry
- Redcar Field
- Rigg Farm and Stake Hill Meadows
- Rogerley Quarry
- Sherburn Hill
- Shipley and Great Woods
- Sleightholme Beck Gorge – The Troughs
- Slit Woods
- Stony Cut, Cold Hesledon
- Teesdale Allotments
- The Bottoms
- The Carrs
- Thrislington Plantation
- Town Kelloe Bank
- Trimdon Limestone Quarry
- Tuthill Quarry
- Upper Teesdale
- Waldridge Fell
- West Newlandside Meadows
- West Park Meadows
- West Rigg Open Cutting
- Westernhope Burn Wood
- Wingate Quarry
- Witton-le-Wear
- Yoden Village Quarry
- Neighbouring areas
- Cleveland
- Northumberland
- Tyne and Wear
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