Grimeshaw Wood
Grimeshaw Wood is a 16.8-hectare (42-acre) Local Nature Reserve on the western outskirts of Peterborough in Cambridgeshire. It is owned by Peterborough City Council, and managed by the council together with the Peterborough Environment City Trust.
This site is ancient woodland in three adjacent areas. Flora include nettle-leaved bellflowers, and there are resident pipistrelle bats.
There is access from Bretton Way, which bisects the site.
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An environmental bio-study is currently underway to and record the true diversity of flora and fauna in this ancient woodland. On 8 January 2022 a pair of tawny owls were noted. Other bird species noted include buzzard, red kite, wood pigeon, stock dove, great tit, coal tit, robin, blue tit, lesser spotted woodpecker, green woodpecker, blackbird, brambling, pheasant, collared dove, tree creeper.
References
- ^ "Grimeshaw Wood". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Archived from the original on 17 April 2024. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "Map of Grimeshaw Wood". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
- ^ "Bretton's woods to be opened up to public thanks to Lottery grant". Heritage Fund. Archived from the original on 9 March 2024. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "Woodland Heritage in Action". Peterborough Environment City Trust. Archived from the original on 28 December 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2016.