Pond Spinney, Glenfield

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Getting There

A right of way runs through the north end of this woodland block - Nearest access point are Blackthorn Road and Somerset Drive.

Managed By

Unmanaged, owned by Leicester City Council

Wild places

20 Acre Piece NR Abbey Park Addah Wood, Clipsham Alastairs Wood, Lount Albert Village Lake, Pick T... Altar Stones Ambion Wood Armley Wood, Hambleton Asfordby Hill Ashby Canal, Bosworth Battl... Ashby Canal, Shenton Ashby Woulds Trail, Conkers... Astill Lodge Park Attenborough Arboretum Aylestone Meadows Bagworth Heath Woods Bagworth Wood Bardon Hill Barnsdale Wood Battram Woods Beacon Hill Country Park Belgrave Hall Gardens Bennion Pools Fishing Lakes... Billa Barra, Markfield Blaby Cemetery Blackbrook Reservoir Bloody Oaks Bloody Oaks Quarry Bosworth Battlefield Bouskell Park, Blaby Bradgate Park Braunstone Park Brocks Hill Country Park Brooke Hill Wood Brookside Meadow, Glenfield Broughton Astley Church Browns Wood, Thornton Burbage Common and Woods Burley Bushes, RFOC Burley Wood Burrough Hill Country Park Burroughs Road, Ratby Burroughs Wood, Ratby Castle Gardens, Leicester Castle Hill Country Park, L... Change Spinney, Ratby Charley Woods Charnwood Lodge NR Clanfelde Hills Clipsham Park Wood Cloud Wood Conkers Coombs Meadows Cosby Disused Railway (Bram... Cossington Meadows Cottesmore Wood County Hall, Glenfield Courting Stiles Cribbs Meadow Croft Glebe Croft Hill Croft Pasture David Taylor Wood, Heather Dimminsdale Donisthorpe Woodland Park Donkey Lane, Sapcote Ellis Meadows Empingham Marshy Meadow Empingham Old Wood Everards Meadow Evington Park Eye Brook Inflow Eyebrook Reservoir Feanedock, Boothorpe, Rawdo... Fenny Drayton Churchyard Fishley Belt, Glenfield Fishpond Plantation Flood Relief Basin (A50), G... Flude's Lane, Oadby Fort Henry Ponds Fosse Meadows, Sharnford Franklin Park, Braunstone T... Gilroes Cemetery Gipsy Lane Brick Quarry Glen Parva LNR Glenfield Arboretum Glenfield Millennium Green Glenfield Sports Ground Glenfield Wildlife Meadow Gold Diggings Hill Goss Meadows (east), Leices... Goss Meadows (west), Leices... Grace Dieu Grand Union Canal, Newton H... Grand Union Canal, Newton H... Grantham Canal (Harby to Re... Grantham Canal (Long Clawso... Grantham Canal (Redmile to ... Great Merrible Wood Greetham Wood Far Gresley Wood, Tunnel Wood, ... Groby Pool Gynsill Meadow Heart of the National Fores... Heather Wood Highway Spinney, Leicester Hill Hole Quarry Holwell Reserves Humberstone Park, Leicester Ivanhoe Trail, Glenfield Ivanhoe Trail, Ratby Jaguar Lount Wood, Lount Johns Wood, Prestop Park Jubilee Walk, Leire Jubilee Way (Stathern to Be... Kelham Bridge Ketton Quarry NR Kirby Frith LNR, Leicester Kirby Muxloe Castle Kirby Road Ponds Knighton Green and St Mary ... Knighton Park Launde Big Wood Launde Park Wood Lea Meadows Loughborough Big Meadow Lucas Marsh NR Lutterworth Country Park Lyddington Meadow M69 Island, Sapcote Market Bosworth Country Par... Marsh near Old Fosse, Sapco... Martinshaw Wood Melton Country Park Merry Lees Merrys Meadows Mill Hill Wood, Heather Mountsorrel and Rothley Mar... Narborough Bog NR Nature Alive, Coalville New Lount New Wood (Finch) Newall Wood, Pickworth Newfields Wood, Hicks Lodge... Nunckley Trail, Rothley Optimus Greenway Optimus Point Nature Area Osgathorpe Jubilee Wood Osiers Nature Area Owston Wood Peartree Copse and Meadow Pickworth Great Wood Pochins Bridge, South Wigst... Pond Spinney, Glenfield Preston Village Pond Prestwold Natural Burial Gr... Priors Coppice Priory Water Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jub... Ransom Field, Braunstone To... Rare Ltd Ratby Church Ratby Meadow Ratby Village Pond Ratcliffe Culey Churchyard Rocky Plantation Roman Way, Glenfield Rutland Water Dam Rutland Water, Barnhill Cre... Rutland Water, Barnsdale Rutland Water, Burley Fishp... Rutland Water, Egleton Rese... Rutland Water, Fishermens C... Rutland Water, Hambleton Ol... Rutland Water, Lyndon Reser... Rutland Water, Manton Bridg... Rutland Water, Whitwell Cre... Saddington Reservoir Saltesford Wood Sence Valley Forest Park Shady Lane Arboretum Sheet Hedges Wood Short Heath Skeffington Wood Slatewalk, Glenfield Spinney Hill Park St. Peters Church, Glenfiel... St. Peters Churchyard Stafford Orchard Stanford Reservoir Station Park, Glenfield Stoke Dry Wood Stonesby Quarry Stoneywell National Trust Swadlincote Woods Swithland Reservoir Swithland Wood Syston Lake The Balancing Lagoon The Drift The Freewards, Essendine The Miles Piece The Orchards, Leicester The Seek The Spearwort Fields Thomas Estley College Thornton Meadows Thornton Reservoir Thurnby Lodge Nature Area Tilton Cutting NR Tom Longs Meadow Tunneley Wood, Exton Turnpole Wood, Pickworth Ullesthorpe Stewardship Far... Ulverscroft NR University Botanic Gardens Wadlands Wood, Towpath, Swa... Wanlip Meadows Wardley Wood Wash Brook Nature Reserve Watermead Country Park Watersmeet Meadow Welbeck, Burbage Welford Road Cemetery Welland Park, Market Harbor... Western Park Wheatfield Pond, Glenfield Willesley Wood, Oakthorpe P... Wing Churchyard Winstanley Rough Wirlybones Wood, Ratby Witherley Churchyard Witherley Mill Wood Close Plantation Woodgate, Burbage Wymeswold Meadows Wymondham Rough Go

Total species seen at this site: 20

Description

This block of mature woodland straddles the border with the City. It is protected by a TPO and hides a pond giving a wetland habitat.

Latest records

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Common Name	Latin Name	Date Recorded	Recorded By
Great Crested Newt	Triturus cristatus	29/08/2019	Roy Denney
Common Frog	Rana temporaria	29/08/2019	Roy Denney
Common Frog	Rana temporaria	30/03/2019	Roy Denney
Blackbird	Turdus merula	30/03/2019	Roy Denney
Carrion Crow	Corvus corone	30/03/2019	Roy Denney
False Oat-grass	Arrhenatherum elatius	24/07/2018	Roy Denney
Caucasian Wingnut	Pterocarya fraxinifolia	24/07/2018	Roy Denney
Ash	Fraxinus excelsior	23/07/2018	Roy Denney
Common Lime	Tilia platyphyllos x cordata = T. x europaea	23/07/2018	Roy Denney
Beech	Fagus sylvatica	20/07/2018	Roy Denney
Rowan	Sorbus aucuparia	20/07/2018	Roy Denney
Blackthorn	Prunus spinosa	20/07/2018	Roy Denney
Elder	Sambucus nigra	20/07/2018	Roy Denney
Common Bird's-foot-trefoil	Lotus corniculatus	19/07/2018	Roy Denney
Hawthorn	Crataegus monogyna	12/07/2018	Roy Denney

Latest images

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  False Oat-grass
  Arrhenatherum elatius
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  Caucasian Wingnut
  Pterocarya fraxinifolia
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  Common Bird's-foot-trefoil
  Lotus corniculatus
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  Common Frog
  Rana temporaria
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  Common Frog
  Rana temporaria
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  Common Frog
  Rana temporaria
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  Common Frog
  Rana temporaria
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  Common Frog
  Rana temporaria

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False Oat-grass Arrhenatherum elatius	Caucasian Wingnut Pterocarya fraxinifolia	Common Bird's-foot-trefoil Lotus corniculatus	Common Frog Rana temporaria	Common Frog Rana temporaria	Common Frog Rana temporaria	Common Frog Rana temporaria	Common Frog Rana temporaria
Common Frog Rana temporaria

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Group	Common name	Latin name	Last seen
Amphibians	Common Frog	Rana temporaria	25/03/2018
Amphibians	Great Crested Newt	Triturus cristatus	29/08/2019
Birds	Carrion Crow	Corvus corone	30/03/2019
Birds	Blackbird	Turdus merula	30/03/2019
Butterflies	Speckled Wood	Pararge aegeria	07/07/2018
Grasses, Rushes & Sedges	False Oat-grass	Arrhenatherum elatius	24/07/2018
Trees, Shrubs & Climbers	Sycamore	Acer pseudoplatanus	12/07/2018
Trees, Shrubs & Climbers	Hawthorn	Crataegus monogyna	12/07/2018
Trees, Shrubs & Climbers	Beech	Fagus sylvatica	20/07/2018
Trees, Shrubs & Climbers	Ash	Fraxinus excelsior	23/07/2018
Trees, Shrubs & Climbers	Wild Cherry	Prunus avium	12/07/2018
Trees, Shrubs & Climbers	Blackthorn	Prunus spinosa	20/07/2018
Trees, Shrubs & Climbers	Caucasian Wingnut	Pterocarya fraxinifolia	24/07/2018
Trees, Shrubs & Climbers	Pedunculate Oak	Quercus robur	12/07/2018
Trees, Shrubs & Climbers	Bramble agg.	Rubus fruticosus agg.	12/07/2018
Trees, Shrubs & Climbers	Elder	Sambucus nigra	20/07/2018
Trees, Shrubs & Climbers	Rowan	Sorbus aucuparia	20/07/2018
Trees, Shrubs & Climbers	Common Lime	Tilia platyphyllos x cordata = T. x europaea	23/07/2018
Wildflowers	Common Bird's-foot-trefoil	Lotus corniculatus	19/07/2018
Wildflowers	Common Nettle	Urtica dioica	12/07/2018