Oxley Mead

Oxley Mead
Site of Special Scientific Interest

Area of Search	Buckinghamshire
Grid reference	SP819348
Interest	Biological
Area	3.7 hectares
Notification	1994
Location map	Magic Map

Oxley Mead is a 3.7 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the south-western outskirts of Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire.^[1]^[2]

The site is an ancient hay meadow which has a nationally rare plant community, due to its traditional management, with a hay cut followed by cattle grazing, and no use of fertilisers or herbicides. A stream, which runs through the middle of the field, regularly floods. The main plants are herbs such as great burnet and meadow sweet, and grasses include meadow foxtail and sweet vernal-grass. The meadow is surrounded by hedgerows which have a wide variety of trees and shrubs.^[1]

There is access from the end of Raft Way.

References

1 2 "Oxley Mead citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
↑ "Map of Oxley Mead". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 20 March 2016.

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Coordinates: 52°00′20″N 0°48′30″W / 52.0056°N 0.8083°W / 52.0056; -0.8083

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