Dabble Bank

Dabble Bank
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Country England
Region North East
District Easington
Location NZ364434
 - coordinates 54°47′5″N 1°26′5″W / 54.78472°N 1.43472°W / 54.78472; -1.43472Coordinates: 54°47′5″N 1°26′5″W / 54.78472°N 1.43472°W / 54.78472; -1.43472
Area 4.12 ha (10.18 acres)
Notification 2002
Management Natural England
Area of Search County Durham
Interest Biological
Map of England and Wales with a red dot representing the location of the Dabble Bank SSSI, Co Durham
Location of Dabble Bank SSSI, Co Durham
Website: Map of site

Dabble Bank is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Easington district of County Durham, England. It lies about 1 km west of the village of Haswell and about 9 km east of the city of Durham.

The site is important for its communities of nationally scarce grassland on Magnesian Limestone and in particular for its unusual location, in a small valley cut into the limestone plateau.[1]

A feature of the site is grassland characterised by downy oat-grass, Avenula pubescens, this being a vegetation type which nationally has a scattered distribution on lowland limestones and which is rare in County Durham. Among the species found is the pyramidal orchid, Anacamptis pyramidalis, which is rare in the county.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Dabble Bank" (PDF). English Nature. 2002. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 June 2011. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
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