Red Lodge Heath

Red Lodge Heath
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Area of Search Suffolk
Grid reference TL 697 700 [1]
Interest Biological
Area 20.8 hectares[1]
Notification 2005[1]
Location map Magic Map

Red Lodge Heath is a 20.8 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Red Lodge in Suffolk.[1][2]

Habitats on this site are chalk grassland, dry acid grassland, lichen heath, wet woodland and ponds. It has nationally important assemblages of rare plants and invertebrates, including a nationally important population of the nationally rare five-banded tailed diger wasp. It has several other invertebrate species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, and plants include the nationally rare smooth rupturewort.[3]

There is access to the site from Turnpike Road.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Designated Sites View: Red Lodge Heath". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
  2. ↑ "Map of Red Lodge Heath". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
  3. ↑ "Red Lodge Heath citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 11 June 2017.

Coordinates: 52°18′07″N 0°29′13″E / 52.302°N 0.487°E / 52.302; 0.487

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