Alpine Meadow, Berkhamsted

Alpine Meadow
Site of Special Scientific Interest

Area of Search	Hertfordshire
Grid reference	SP989103
Interest	Biological
Area	0.4 hectares
Location map	Magic Map

Alpine Meadow is a 0.4 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Berkhamsted in Hertfordshire. It is managed by the Hertfordshire and Middlesex Wildlife Trust and the planning authority is Dacorum Borough Council.^[1]^[2]

The small site is a steeply sloping area of meadow and woodland, and it has been designated an SSSI as a rare example of unimproved chalk grassland. Grass species include upright brome, false brome and sheep's fescue, and there are many orchids, especially common twayblade and common spotted orchid. There are also many butterflies, such as marbled white and the rare Duke of Burgundy.^[1] The woodland has birds such as green woodpeckers and finches.^[3]

The site is always open and there is access by a footpath from Bridle Way.

References

1 2 "Alpine Meadow citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
↑ "Map of Alpine Meadow". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
↑ "Alpine Meadow". Hertfordshire and Middlesex Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 21 December 2014.

Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Hertfordshire

Biological	Aldbury Nowers Alpine Meadow Amwell Quarry Ashridge Commons and Woods Ashwell Springs Benington High Wood Blagrove Common Bricket Wood Common Croxley Common Moor Frogmore Meadows Great Hormead Park Hertford Heath Hunsdon Mead Knebworth Woods Moor Hall Meadows Northaw Great Wood Oddy Hill and Tring Park Patmore Heath Plashes Wood Redwell Wood Roughdown Common Rye Meads Sarratt Bottom Sawbridgeworth Marsh Sherrardspark Wood Tewinbury Therfield Heath Thorley Flood Pound Tring Reservoirs Tring Woodlands Turnford and Cheshunt Pits Wain Wood Water End Swallow Holes Whippendell Wood Wormley-Hoddesdonpark Wood North Wormley-Hoddesdonpark Wood South

Geological	Castle Lime Works Quarry Downfield Pit, Westmill Hillcollins Pit Little Heath Pit Moor Mill Quarry, West Oughtonhead Lane Westwood Quarry

Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust

Dacorum	Aldbury Nowers Alpine Meadow Long Deans Tring Reservoirs

East Hertfordshire	Amwell Quarry Balls Wood Danemead Hertford Heath Hunsdon and Eastwick Meads King's Meads Patmore Heath Rye Meads Tewin Orchard and Hopkyns Wood Tewinbury Thorley Wash Waterford Heath Willowmead

Hertsmere	Hilfield Park Reservoir

North Hertfordshire	Ashwell Quarry and Quarry Springs Blagrove Common Fox Covert Hawkins Wood Hexton Chalk Pit Oughtonhead Purwell Ninesprings

St Albans	Broad Colney Lakes

Stevenage	Ridlins Mire

Three Rivers	Frogmore Meadows Longspring Wood Stocker's Lake

Watford	Cassiobury Park

Welwyn Hatfield	Fir and Pond Woods Gobions Wood Lemsford Springs Stanborough Reedmarsh Stocking Springs Wood

Hillingdon	Broadwater Lake Old Park Wood Uxbridge Alderglade

Former reserves	Barkway Chalk Pit Darland's Lake Nature Reserve Hill End Pit Marshalls Heath Pryor's Wood Rowley Green Common Sawbridgeworth Marsh Telegraph Hill

Coordinates: 51°46′57″N 0°34′04″W / 51.7826°N 0.5677°W / 51.7826; -0.5677

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Alpine Meadow, Berkhamsted

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