West Newlandside Meadows
54°43′55″N 2°2′39″W / 54.73194°N 2.04417°W / 54.73194; -2.04417
West Newlandside Meadows is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Wear Valley district of County Durham, England. It lies 3 km south-west of the village of Stanhope.
The area is drained by two small burns, tributaries of the River Wear and consists of several fields that are managed as traditional northern hay meadows, a habitat that is threatened by intensive agricultural practices.
The meadows are rich in grassland species: the nationally rare northern hawk's beard, Crepis mollis, is plentiful, and the locally rare adder's tongue, Ophioglossum vulgatum, and frog orchid, Coeloglossum viride, are also present.
A different vegetation is found where there are banks that are too steep to be cut; here the calcareous soils support such species as fairy flax, Linum catharticum, harebell, Campanula rotundifolia, and mountain pansy, Viola lutea. [1]
References
- ^ "West Newlandside Meadows : 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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