Wymeswold Meadows
Selected Wild Place / Other Wild Places / Public Rights of Way / VC55 boundary
The Meadows are located 1km east of Wymswold and lie along Narrow Lane which connects Wymswold to the B676 about 1km to the west of Six Hills.
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These meadows are owned by the Leicestershire & Rutland Wildlife Trust and were originally part of common land used by Wymeswold villagers, traditionally for cattle grazing. The land is unimproved grassland on calcareous Boulder Clay and bisected by a stream which is deeply cut into the meadows.
The stream helps to support dragonfles and damselflies and the grassland contains Cowslip, Cuckooflower, Hoary Plantain, Agrimony and Spiny Restharrow.
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