Kings and Bakers Woods and Heaths

Kings and Bakers Woods and Heaths
Site of Special Scientific Interest

Area of Search	Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire
Grid reference	SP925295
Interest	Biological
Area	212.8 hectares
Notification	1984
Location map	Magic Map

Kings and Bakers Woods and Heaths is a 212.8 hectare Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) between Heath and Reach in Bedfordshire and Great Brickhill in Buckinghamshire. The site is mainly in Bedfordshire but includes Rammamere Heath in Buckinghamshire. It was notified in 1984 under Section 28 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, and the local planning authorities are Central Bedfordshire Council and Aylesbury Vale Council.^[1]^[2]^[3] Part of it is a National Nature Reserve,^[4]^[5] and part of it is a nature reserve managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.^[6] it is also a Nature Conservation Review site.^[1]

The site has the largest remaining area of woodland in Bedfordshire, together with lowland heath, acidic grassland and some small ponds. There are a number of rare plant species, including great woodrush, wood vetch and saw-wort.^[1] There are also abundant birds and insects, including white admiral butterflies and tree pipits.^[6]

There is parking in Stockgrove Country Park, which is partly in the SSSI.

References

1 2 3 "Kings and Bakers Woods and Heaths citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
↑ "Map of Kings and Bakers Woods and Heaths". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
↑ "Kings and Bakers Woods and Heaths". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
↑ "Bedfordshire's National Nature Reserves". Natural England. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
↑ "Map of National Nature Reserves in England". Natural England. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
1 2 "King's Wood and Rammamere Heath". Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. Retrieved 27 August 2015.

Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Bedfordshire

Biological	Barton Hills Blow's Down Cooper's Hill Deacon Hill Dropshort Marsh Dunstable and Whipsnade Downs Fancott Woods and Meadows Felmersham Gravel Pits Flitwick Moor Galley and Warden Hills Hanger Wood Houghton Regis Marl Lakes Kings and Bakers Woods and Heaths Kings Wood and Glebe Meadows, Houghton Conquest Knocking Hoe Marston Thrift Maulden Church Meadow Maulden Heath Maulden Wood and Pennyfather's Hill Nares Gladley Marsh Odell Great Wood Potton Wood Pulloxhill Marsh Sandy Warren Smithcombe, Sharpenhoe and Sundon Hills Southill Lake and Woods Stevington Marsh Sundon Chalk Quarry Swineshead Wood Tebworth Marsh Tilwick Meadow Totternhoe Chalk Quarry Totternhoe Knolls Wavendon Heath Ponds Yelden Meadows

Geological	Biddenham Pit Double Arches Pit Kensworth Chalk Pit Nine Acres Pit Totternhoe Stone Pit

Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Buckinghamshire

Biological	Ashridge Commons and Woods Aston Clinton Ragpits Aston Rowant Aston Rowant Woods Bacombe and Coombe Hills Black Park Bradenham Woods, Park Wood and The Coppice Burnham Beeches Buttlers Hangings Dancersend Dancersend Waterworks Ellesborough and Kimble Warrens Fayland Chalk Bank Finemere Wood Foxcote Reservoir and Wood Frieth Meadows Frogmore Meadows Gomm Valley Grangelands and Pulpit Hill Grendon and Doddershall Woods Ham Home-cum-Hamgreen Woods Hodgemoor Wood Hollowhill and Pullingshill Woods Homefield Wood Howe Park Wood Ivinghoe Hills Kingcup Meadows and Oldhouse Wood Kings and Bakers Woods and Heaths Littleworth Common Lodge Hill Long Herdon Meadow Mid Colne Valley Millfield Wood Moorend Common Naphill Common Old Rectory Meadows Oxley Mead Pilch Fields Pitstone Hill Poker's Pond Meadow Rodbed Wood Rushbeds Wood and Railway Cutting Shabbington Woods Complex Sheephouse Wood Stoke Common Swain's Wood Temple Island Meadows Tingewick Meadows Tring Reservoirs Turville Hill Weston Turville Reservoir Widdenton Park Wood Windsor Hill Wormsley Chalk Banks Yardley Chase

Geological	Bierton Clay Pit Bolter End Sand Pit Bugle Quarry Fern House Gravel Pit Froghall Brickworks Muswell Hill Pitstone Quarry South Lodge Pit Stone Warren Farm, Stewkley

Coordinates: 51°57′36″N 0°39′18″W / 51.96°N 0.655°W / 51.96; -0.655

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Kings and Bakers Woods and Heaths

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