Biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in England
Glemsford Pits is a 37.5-hectare (93-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Glemsford in Suffolk . The River Stour , which forms the boundary between Suffolk and Essex , runs through the site, which is thus in both counties.[ 1] [ 2]
The site has gravel workings which are now disused and filled with water, as well as the river. Thirteen species of dragonfly and damselfly have been recorded, including one which is rare in Britain, the ruddy darter dragonfly, and two which are locally uncommon, the four-spotted chaser dragonfly and the red-eyed damselfly . Aquatic plants include the yellow water-lily and mare's tail . Rabbits graze acidic grassland, and there are also areas of woodland, scrub herb and fen.[ 1]
Most of the site is private land with no public access, but a footpath runs through the western end.
References 52°05′02″N 0°41′06″E / 52.084°N 0.685°E / 52.084; 0.685
Biological
Abbey Wood, Flixton Alde–Ore Estuary Arger Fen Bangrove Wood, Ixworth Barking Woods Barnby Broad and Marshes Barnham Heath Berner's Heath Bixley Heath Black Ditches, Cavenham Blaxhall Heath Blo' Norton and Thelnetham Fens Bradfield Woods Breckland Farmland Breckland Forest Brent Eleigh Woods Bugg's Hole Fen, Thelnetham Burgate Wood Cavendish Woods Cavenham–Icklingham Heaths Cherry Hill and The Gallops, Barton Mills Chippenhall Green Combs Wood Cornard Mere Crag Pit, Sutton Cransford Meadow Deadman's Grave, Icklingham Deben Estuary Dew's Ponds Edwardstone Woods Elmsett Park Wood Eriswell Low Warren Fakenham Wood and Sapiston Great Grove Fox Fritillary Meadow Foxhole Heath Freston and Cutler's Woods with Holbrook Park Frithy and Chadacre Woods The Gardens, Great Ashfield Gipping Great Wood Glemsford Pits The Glen Chalk Caves, Bury St Edmunds Gosbeck Wood Gromford Meadow Groton Wood Gypsy Camp Meadows, Thrandeston Hay Wood, Whepstead Horringer Court Caves High House Meadows, Monewden Hintlesham Woods Hopton Fen How Hill Track Iken Wood Ipswich Heaths Kentwell Woods Knettishall Heath Lackford Lakes Lakenheath Poor's Fen Lakenheath Warren Landguard Common Laurel Farm Meadow Leiston - Aldeburgh Lineage Wood & Railway Track, Long Melford Lingwood Meadows Little Blakenham Pit Little Heath, Barnham London Road Industrial Estate, Brandon Lordswell Field Maidscross Hill Major Farm Meadow Metfield Meadow Mickfield Meadow Middle Wood, Offton Milden Thicks Minsmere–Walberswick Heaths and Marshes Moat Farm Meadows Monewden Meadows Nacton Meadows Newbourne Springs Newmarket Heath Norton Wood Orwell Estuary Over and Lawn Woods Pakefield to Easton Bavents Pakenham Meadows Pashford Poor's Fen, Lakenheath Potton Hall Fields, Westleton RAF Lakenheath Redgrave and Lopham Fens Rex Graham Reserve Riverside House Meadow Sandlings Forest Sinks Valley, Kesgrave Sizewell Marshes Snape Warren Sotterley Park Sprat's Water and Marshes, Carlton Colville Stallode Wash, Lakenheath Stanton Woods Staverton Park and The Thicks, Wantisden Stour Estuary Sutton and Hollesley Heaths Thetford Heaths Thorpe Morieux Woods Titsal Wood, Shadingfield Trundley and Wadgell's Wood, Great Thurlow Tunstall Common Wangford Warren and Carr Weather and Horn Heaths, Eriswell West Stow Heath Westhall Wood and Meadow Weston Fen Wilde Street Meadow Wortham Ling Geological
Alde-Ore Estuary Aldeburgh Brick Pit Aldeburgh Hall Pit Bawdsey Cliff Bobbitshole, Belstead Breckland Forest Buckanay Farm Pit, Alderton Chillesford Church Pit Corton Cliffs Crag Farm Pit, Sudbourne Crag Pit, Aldeburgh Creeting St Mary Pits Ferry Cliff, Sutton Flixton Quarry Gedgrave Hall Pit Great Blakenham Pit Hascot Hill Pit Holton Pit Hoxne Brick Pit Neutral Farm Pit, Butley Pakefield to Easton Bavents Ramsholt Cliff Red House Farm Pit Red Lodge Heath Richmond Farm Pit, Gedgrave Rockhall Wood Pit, Sutton Round Hill Pit, Aldeburgh Sandy Lane Pit, Barham Stoke Tunnel Cutting, Ipswich Stour Estuary Sudbourne Park Pit Valley Farm Pit, Sudbourne Waldringfield Pit
