Chawridge Bourne
51°27′18″N 00°42′54″W / 51.45500°N 0.71500°W / 51.45500; -0.71500
Chawridge Bourne is a 9.4-hectare (23-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Berkshire, England[1][2] Part of the site is a 5-hectare (12-acre) nature reserve called Chawridge Bank, which is managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.[3]
Etymology
The name Chawridge is first attested in a charter of 942, which includes the Old English phrase "on ceawan hrycges hagan" ("to the enclosure of Ceawa's ridge"),[4] where Ceawa is a personal name attested only here and in the place-names East and West Challow.[5]: 4 [6] As well as, appearing in Chawridge Bourne, the name also appears in the neighbouring sites of Chawridge Manor Farm, Charriage Lane, Chawridge Mead, and Chawridge Gorse.[4]
Ecology
This linear site is named after the stream called Chawridge Bourne, which runs through it. Half of it is unimproved grassland, which is managed by sheep grazing. There are also areas of scrub and broadleaved woodland. On the east side there is an ancient parish boundary hedge which has diverse tree flora.[7]
Fauna
The site has the following animals[7][8]
Mammals
- Micromys minutus
Birds
- Alauda
- Great spotted woodpecker
- Eurasian blackcap
- Lesser whitethroat
Invertebrates
- Polyommatus icarus
- Erynnis tages
- Pyrgus malvae
Flora
The site has the following flora:[7][9]
Trees
- Crataegus monogyna
- Prunus spinosa
- Fraxinus
- Maple
- Quercus robur
- Malus sylvestris
- Sorbus torminalis
Plants
- Arrhenatherum elatius
- Holcus lanatus
- Dactylis glomerata
- Deschampsia cespitosa
- Festuca rubra
- Achillea ptarmica
- Genista tinctoria
- Hordeum secalinum
- Ophioglossum vulgatum
- Primula veris
- Silaum silaus
- Senecio erucifolius
- Carex pallescens
- Potentilla anglica
- Succisa pratensis
- Ranunculus auricomus
- Phyllitis scolopendrium
- Polystichum setiferum
- Centaurea nigra
- Leontodon taraxacoides
References
- ^ a b c d "Designated Sites View: Chawridge Bourne". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
- ^ "Map of Chawridge Bourne". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
- ^ "Chawridge Bank". Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
- ^ a b Margaret Gelling, The Place-Names of Berkshire, English Place-Name Society, 49–51, 3 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973–76), I 37.
- ^ Richard Coates, 'On Some Controversy Surrounding Gewissae / Gewissei, Cerdic and Ceawlin', Nomina, 13 (1989–90), 1–11.
- ^ John Insley, 'Britons and Anglo-Saxons', in Kulturelle Integration und Personennamen im Mittelalter, ed. by Wolfgang Haubrichs, Christa Jochum-Godglück (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2019), §4.
- ^ a b c "Chawridge Bourne citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
- ^ Opening Times. "Chawridge Bank | Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust". Bbowt.org.uk. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
- ^ "Condition of SSSI Units for Site Chawridge Bourne SSSI". Natural england. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
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- Aldermaston Gravel Pits
- Ashridge Wood
- Avery's Pightle
- Bisham Woods
- Blackwater Valley
- Bowdown and Chamberhouse Woods
- Boxford Water Meadows
- Bray Meadows
- Bray Pennyroyal Field
- Briff Lane Meadows
- Broadmoor to Bagshot Woods and Heaths
- Catmore and Winterly Copses
- Chawridge Bourne
- Cleeve Hill
- Cock Marsh
- Combe Wood and Linkenholt Hanging
- Coombe Wood, Frilsham
- Croker's Hole
- Decoy Pit, Pools and Woods
- Easton Farm Meadow
- Enborne Copse
- Englemere Pond
- Freeman's Marsh
- Great Thrift Wood
- Greenham and Crookham Commons
- Heath Lake
- Hog's Hole
- Holies Down
- Inkpen and Walbury Hills
- Inkpen Common
- Inkpen Crocus Field
- Irish Hill Copse
- Kennet and Lambourn Floodplain
- Kennet Valley Alderwoods
- King's Copse
- Lardon Chase
- Lodge Wood and Sandford Mill
- Longmoor Bog
- Old Copse, Beenham
- Park Farm Down
- Redhill Wood
- River Kennet
- River Lambourn
- Sandhurst to Owlsmoor Bogs and Heaths
- Seven Barrows
- Snelsmore Common
- Stanford End Mill and River Loddon
- Streatley Warren
- Sulham and Tidmarsh Woods and Meadows
- Swinley Park and Brick Pits
- Thatcham Reed Beds
- Wasing Wood Ponds
- Wellington College Bog
- West Woodhay Down
- West's Meadow, Aldermaston
- Westfield Farm Chalk Bank
- White Shute
- Windsor Forest and Great Park
- Woolhampton Reed Bed
- Wraysbury and Hythe End Gravel Pits
- Wraysbury No 1 Gravel Pit
- Wykery Copse