OS: 122 • GR: TF 259 787 • 5.90ha (14.70 acres) • Freehold 1986 From the Red Hill reserve high on Habitat type: Grassland the chalk escarpment to the east The meadows are situated on the south you can look down towards side of the village of (although Silverines Meadows set amid the in parish). The main access is on small hedged fields that still the north side of the Goulceby- survive on the Sandstone road from which a gate soils around Goulceby. The flora leads into the reserve at grid reference includes cowslip, great burnet TF 259 787. Cars may be parked on the and devil's-bit scabious and some roadside. It is also possible to enter the of the other plants found on reserve at the southern end of clayland meadows, but, unusally, it also ragged-robin and water avens. Snipe Goulceby village via a rough track, has a great abundance of the silvery- frequent the marsh, and the large though as this can be very wet and white meadow saxifrage (could this be hedges support whitethroat, lesser muddy after rain it is advisable to use the origin of the picturesque name whitethroat and other hedgerow birds. the main access. Visitors are requested Silverines?), a localised plant of sandy to keep to the edges of the reserve and soils. An additional attraction is a small The meadows are sometimes cut for to any mown paths, especially before marsh traversed by a stream where hay with aftermath grazing, but in most hay time. there are southern marsh-orchid, years they are let for summer grazing common spotted-orchid, kingcup, only.

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