Cocksherd Wood
Geography and site
The site is 11.98 acres (4.85 ha) in size. The site features ancient woodland with coppiced areas and some meadow and grassland areas.
The site lies at the end of a Chalk dry valley, a tributary of the Haymill Valley and is mainly on the Lambeth Group. in 1979 the woods and surrounding land was transferred over to Slough Borough Council.
History
The woods have been there since at least the 1700s as they featured on Jefferys Map of Buckinghamshire which was dated 1766–68. In the 1950s the woodland was bought by the London County Council as part of the Britwell development.
In 1996 the site was declared as a local nature reserve by Slough Borough Council. In 2001 management of the reserve was given to Evergreen 2000 trust.
Fauna
The site has the following fauna:
Invertebrates
Birds
Flora
The site has the following flora:
Trees
- Acer campestre
- Betula pendula
- Corylus avellana
- Crataegus monogyna
- Quercus robur
- Fagus sylvatica
- Fraxinus excelsior
- Ilex aquifolium
- Prunus avium
- Prunus spinosa
- Rhododendron ponticum
- Salix caprea
- Sambucus nigra
- Sorbus aucuparia
- Ulmus procera
Plants
- Lonicera periclymenum
- Anemone nemorosa
- Carex sylvatica
- Hyacinthoides non-scripta
- Poa nemoralis
- Vicia sepium
References
- ^ "Cocksherd Wood". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
- ^ "Map of Cocksherd Wood". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
- ^ "Britwell and Haymill – Postcards from Slough". Postcards-from-slough.co.uk. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
- ^ "Cocksherd Wood and the Evergreen 2000 Trust" (PDF). T.M. Tauren Bent. June 2003. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
- ^ "Cocksherd Wood" (PDF). Berkshire Geoconservation Group. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
- ^ "Cocksherd Bluebell Wood, Britwell. May 2007". Sloughhistoryonline.org.uk. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
