Parsonage Moor

Parsonage Moor


Type	Nature reserve
Location	Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire
OS grid	SU459999
Area	6 hectares (15 acres)
Managed by	Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust

Parsonage Moor is a 6-hectare (15-acre) nature reserve north-west of Abingdon-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. It is managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.^[1] It is part of Cothill Fen, which is a Site of Special Scientific Interest^[2] and Special Area of Conservation.^[3] Part of it is in Cothill Fen and Parsonage Moor Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I.^[4]

This site has fen, which is a nationally rare habitat, wet woodland, ancient woodland, open water and reedbeds. There are carnivorous plants, such as butterwort, which traps insects on its sticky leaves, and bladderwort, which traps them underwater. Other flora include southern marsh-orchids and the nationally scarce narrow-leaved marsh orchid^[1]

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References

^ ^a ^b "Parsonage Moor". Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
^ "Designated Sites View: Cothill Fen". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
^ "Designated Sites View: Cothill Fen". Special Areas of Conservation. Natural England. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
^ Ratcliffe, Derek, ed. (1977). A Nature Conservation Review. Vol. 2. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 208. ISBN 0521-21403-3.

51°41′44″N 1°20′07″W / 51.6956°N 1.3354°W / 51.6956; -1.3354

Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust

Berkshire

Bracknell Forest	Chawridge Bank Wildmoor Heath
Slough	Haymill Valley
West Berkshire	Audrey's Meadow Avery's Pightle Bowdown Woods Bucklebury Common Decoy Heath Greenham and Crookham Commons Hosehill Lake Inkpen Common Inkpen Crocus Field Kintbury Newt Ponds Moor Copse Nature Discovery Centre Padworth Common Local Nature Reserve Paices Wood Country Parkland Rack Marsh Seven Barrows Snelsmore Common Country Park Sole Common Pond Thatcham Reed Beds Watts Bank Wokefield Common
Windsor and Maidenhead	Hurley Chalk Pit
Wokingham	Loddon Nature Reserve Shepperlands Farm

Buckinghamshire

Aylesbury Vale	Aston Clinton Ragpits Bernwood Meadows Calvert Jubilee College Lake Dancersend with Pavis Woods Finemere Wood Foxcote Reservoir Hog and Hollowhill Woods Pilch Fields Rushbeds Wood Upper Ray Meadows Weston Turville Reservoir Yoesden
Chiltern	Long Grove Wood
Milton Keynes	Little Linford Wood
Wycombe	Bacombe Hill Gomm Valley Grangelands and The Rifle Range Homefield Wood Millfield Wood

Oxfordshire

Cherwell	Ardley Wood Quarry Asham Meads Hook Norton Cutting Lamb's Pool Oxey Mead Whitecross Green Wood Woodford Bottom and Lamb's Pool Woodsides Meadow
Oxford	CS Lewis Nature Reserve Iffley Meadows
South Oxfordshire	Chinnor Hill Cholsey Marsh Hartslock Oakley Hill Sydlings Copse Warren Bank Wells Farm
Vale of White Horse	Dry Sandford Pit Hitchcopse Pit Lashford Lane Fen Letcombe Valley Parsonage Moor Tuckmill Meadow Warburg Nature Reserve
West Oxfordshire	Blenheim Farm Chimney Meadows Foxholes Glyme Valley Westwell Gorse