Local Wildlife Sites

Parish Name Area (Ha) Local Wildlife Site Habitat Easting Northing Alvescot Manor Farm Meadow 1.24 Meadow 427261.3958 204910.0044 Alvescot Willow Meadows 7.33 Wet Grassland 427192.9948 205966.5619 Asthall Minster Lovell Marsh 7.57 Marsh and grassland 431441.0646 211825.2449 Asthall Worsham Meadows 14.08 Meadowland 430368.6625 211066.1922 Asthall Foxhill Bottom, Asthall Leigh Valley 5.19 Bank of limestone grassland 430487.9521 211792.1944 Aston Bampton and Shifford Shifford Chimney Meadows 138.77 Meadowland 435929.041 200711.5462 Bladon Bladon Heath 97.26 Woodland -conifer, mixed 445493.0646 213818.2244 Brize Norton Hucks Copse 3.23 Ancient woodland 431693.0914 207557.0767 Bruern Taynton Bushes 48.48 422752.0152 216491.3892 Bruern Tangley Woods 28.1 Ancient woodland 423224.111 217201.516 Bruern Bruern Woods 34.48 Ancient woodland 426429.1311 219828.0141 Carterton Carterton school grassland 3.9 Limestone grassland 427402.8976 207347.1967 Cassington Acrey Pits 4.33 Marginal vegetation and willow 445678.21 211124.65 Cassington Burleigh Wood 38.72 Ancient Woodland 444369.2957 213545.5525 Cassington Cassington Gravel Pits South (Smiths Pits) 10.17 Wet Woodland 445035.1833 210054.5918 Cassington and Yarnton Cassington to Yarnton Gravel Pits 76.26 447239.94 210859.24 Charlbury Wigwell 4.72 Limstone grassland 435840.5798 220142.0443 Churchill Meadow at Besbury Lane 6.06 429534.5344 225212.6428 Combe Coombe Fen 0.21 Rare fen meadow habitat 440902.4784 214948.3209 Combe Bridgefield Bank & Brake 3.18 Woodland, Limestone grassland 438494.6732 216144.1386 Crawley Maggots Grove Wood 3.24 Wood 433689.9298 211319.0098 Crawley Limestone Bank near Crawley 0.79 Calcareous grassland 434177.43 211672.53 Crawley Manor Farm Meadow 6.86 Meadowland 433784.3687 211860.9547 Curbridge Crawley Marsh 6.11 Meadow 434035.6287 211355.7893 Ducklington Mouldens Wood and Davis Copse 25.8 Ancient woodland 434097.8707 207047.6525 Ducklington Barleypark Wood 20.88 Ancient woodland 434645.3427 206305.7848 Enstone Lidstone Bottom 15.64 River Glyme and adjacent areas 436597.59 224620.6 Enstone Valley near Chuch Enstone 4.03 Rare marshy grassland 437625.5613 225169.6451 Enstone Phalaris bed W. of Woodford Bridge 1.49 Extensive area of reedbed 437970.0647 224496.5478 Enstone Grassland near Chalford Oaks 0.77 Damp meadow 435036.2164 227017.936 Enstone Bank south of Cleveley 3.51 Grassland 439233.5296 223537.3723 Enstone Whiteways Quarry 2.11 Unimproved limestone grassland 441998.8654 224672.6574 Eynsham Long Mead 10.3 Lowland Meadow 444119.9486 208573.1458 Fawler Palmers Bank 0.1 437682.2296 217970.6758 Filkins and Broughton Poggs The Bog 2.87 Hay meadow 423424.2845 204232.2784 Finstock Langland Farm Meadows, Finstock 1.41 Neutral Grassland 436343.3141 216313.6401 Finstock Lady Grove 23.88 Ancient woodland 437699.42 216217.18 Finstock Topples Wood 17.83 Ancient woodland 437174.4328 216308.4216 Finstock Finstock Valley - NE section 1.85 Grassland 436589.9239 216407.6032 Freeland South Freeland Meadows 5.59 Unimproved natural grassland 442198.8576 211397.5973 Fulbrook Dean Bottom 4.04 Steep sided dry valley 425765.6345 214173.1128 Fulbrook Burford Wet Grassland 6.62 Wet meadow 424543.8732 212742.3724 Glympton Glympton Valley 3.44 Variety of woodland habitat 442711.9972 219755.285 Hanborough West of Abel Wood 2.35 2 banks of limestone grassland 440303.417 214632.2514 Hanborough Pinsley Wood 46.73 Ancient woodland 442891.385 213427.5463 Hardwick-with-Yelford Home Wood 29.13 Ancient woodland 436785.4308 205700.978 Hardwick-with-Yelford Boy's Wood 29.16 Ancient woodland 436056.7818 206079.1897 Heythrop Priory Wood 11.89 Woodland and scrub 434083.2192 227648.1257 Heythrop Ovens Gorse 6.44 Rare acid habitat on sandy soil 434470.6794 227291.0779 Kencot Shilton Bradwell Grove Airfield 16.11 Calcareous grassland, post industrial habitats 424858.46 206578.88 Leafield Bank north of Fordwells 4.77 Limestone grassland 430534.2069 214320.6306 Lew Lew Gorse 3.9 Area of scrub 431268.7841 206193.397 Little Faringdon Old Gravel Pit near Little Faringdon 20.16 Old gravel pit 421862.5298 201545.1476 Little Tew Swere Bank 5.05 435205.3308 230916.5601 Little Tew Valley west of Great Tew 32.37 Valley and quarry 437501.6957 229804.2485 Minster Lovell Minster Lovell Meadows 34.07 Riverside meadows 433098.0416 211555.4721 Minster Lovell Crawley Mead 5.04 Meadowland 433411.4529 211264.5454 Minster Lovell Pumping Station Meadow 5.71 Limestone grassland. 429980.0068 210401.2925 Minster Lovell Minster Lovell Bank 4.86 Marsh 432670.9062 211210.3309 North Leigh Holly Grove and Coneygar Copse 17.99 Ancient woodland 437022.3526 214790.3062 North Leigh West Woods, Eynsham Hall Park 25.53 438711.9883 211576.3462 North Leigh North Leigh Common 15.63 Grass, gorse, bracken, woodlan 440109.2623 213786.0036 North Leigh and Combe Ashford Bridge to Combe Cutting (Cotswold Line) 8.15 Limestone grassland 0 0 Over Norton Priory Mill Ponds 7.62 Woodland & ponds 433336.6702 229666.3579 Ramsden Park Cottage Hayfield 2.09 Meadow 435993.5174 215184.3834 Rollright Oakham Quarry 4.77 Disused limestone quarry 427955.4816 230697.6227 Rousham Home Farm Ponds 4.11 Two large ponds 447503.2764 223238.8778 South Leigh Tar Wood 37.52 Ancient woodland 439877.0236 207426.1941 South Leigh Cogges Wood 85.35 Ancient woodland 438168.9356 211038.1202 Spelsbury Taston Brook and Springs 3.13 Grassland 435724.209 221758.0217 Spelsbury Newbarn Farm Pastures 7.12 Lowland Meadow 439318.8 218858.74 Spelsbury Coldron Mill Complex 2.4 Meadows 434449.62 221193.85 Spelsbury Dean Grove 9.3 Ancient Woodland 434292.0419 221047.895 Spelsbury Pasture near Spelsbury 6.01 Rough grazing land 434172.1339 220607.1811 Spelsbury Dean 17.99 Woodland and fields 434511.8057 222597.8813 Spelsbury Lower Farm Meadow 2.55 Grassland 436071.6229 221705.6167 Standlake Dunster Meadow 2.01 Lowland Meadow 439589.68 202436.14 Standlake Disused Pit north of Standlake 2.75 Disused gravel pit 438703.08 204952.69 Stanton Harcourt Thames Island west of Farmoor 1.76 443873.7511 206506.4874 Stanton Harcourt Dix Pit 33.32 Standing Water 440849.4132 204929.3388 Swerford Wood West of Swerford Park 1 435839.1781 231028.708 Swerford Church Marsh 0.9 Fen and grassland 0 0 Swinbrook and Widford Widley Copse 43.43 Ancient woodland 427509.8855 214177.0717 Swinbrook and Widford Swinbrook Watercress Beds 0.91 Area of springs and marsh 428070.73 212841.55 Tackley Tackley Heath 17.14 Rare acid habitat 446802.3885 221186.4953 Tackley Nethercott Meadow (Crecy Hill LNR) 3.74 Limestone Grassland 448324.501 221362.3749 Tackley Tackley Railway Cutting 2.76 Steep sided railway cutting 448432.94 220826.7882 Tackley / Kirtlington Northbrook Marsh 7 Marshland 448421.4712 221456.8779 Taynton Taynton Down Quarry 0.65 Disused quarry 424806.78 214982.62 Witney Grimes Meadow (Witney Marsh) 4.05 Marshland 436021.8062 209947.2425 Wootton Wootton Jubillee Fields 11.85 Calcareous grassland, swamp, wet grassland 444420.61 219581.53 Wootton Worcester Hill Bank and Marshes 10.03 Limestone grassland and marsh 442786.38 219837.76 Wootton Hollybank Marsh 1.67 Reedbed 444707.24 220517.33 Wootton Kings and Wootton Woods 91.57 Ancient Woodland half coniferi 440942.1454 218832.2592 Wootton River Glyme 6.82 Marsh 442864.1351 220316.6943 Worton Worton Wood 34.67 Ancient woodland 443553.5294 227861.0547