Pond Spinney

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20 Acre Piece NR Abbey Park Albert Village Lake, Pick T... Altar Stones Asfordby Hill Ashby Woulds Trail, Conkers... Attenborough Arboretum Aylestone Meadows Bagworth Heath Woods Bardon Hill Beacon Hill Country Park Belgrave Hall Gardens Bennion Pools Fishing Lakes... Billa Barra, Markfield Blaby Cemetery Bloody Oaks Quarry Bouskell Park, Blaby Bradgate Park Braunstone Park Brocks Hill Country Park Brookside Meadows, Glenfiel... Broughton Astley Church Burbage Common and Woods Burroughs Road, Ratby Burroughs Wood, Ratby Castle Gardens, Leicester Castle Hill Country Park, L... Change Spinney, Ratby Charley Woods Charnwood Lodge NR Clanfelde Hills Cloud Wood Conkers Coombs Meadows Cosby Disused Railway (Bram... Cossington Meadows County Hall, Glenfield Courting Stiles Cribbs Meadow Croft Hill Croft Pasture Dimminsdale Donisthorpe Woodland Park Donkey Lane, Sapcote Ellis Meadows Evington Park Eyebrook Reservoir Feanedock, Boothorpe, Rawdo... Fishley Belt, Glenfield Fishpond Plantation Flood Relief Basin (A50), G... Flude's Lane, Oadby Fosse Meadows, Sharnford Franklin Park Franklin Park Community Orc... Gilroes Cemetery Gipsy Lane Brick Quarry Glen Parva LNR Glenfield Arboretum Glenfield Millennium Green Glenfield Sports Ground Glenfield Wildlife Meadow Gold Diggings Hill Goss Meadow, Leicester Grace Dieu Grand Union Canal, Newton H... Grantham Canal (Harby to Re... Grantham Canal (Long Clawso... Grantham Canal (Redmile to ... Great Merrible Wood Gresley Wood, Tunnel Wood, ... Groby Pool Gynsill Meadow Heart of the National Fores... Highway Spinney, Leicester Hill Hole Quarry Holwell Reserves Humberstone Park, Leicester Ivanhoe Trail, Ratby Ivanhoe Way, Glenfield Johns Wood, Prestop Park Jubilee Walk, Leire Jubilee Way (Stathern to Be... Kelham Bridge Ketton Quarry NR Kirby Frith LNR, Leicester Kirby Road Ponds Knighton Park Launde Big Wood Launde Park Wood Lea Meadows Loughborough Big Meadow Lucas Marsh NR Lyddington Meadow M69 Island, Sapcote Marsh near Old Fosse, Sapco... Martinshaw Wood Melton Country Park Merry Lees Merrys Meadows Mountsorrel and Rothley Mar... Narborough Bog NR Nature Alive, Coalville New Lount Newfields Wood, Hicks Lodge... Newton Harcourt Canal, Wist... Optimus Greenway Optimus Nature Area Osiers Nature Area Owston Wood Peartree Copse Pickworth Great Wood Pochin's Bridge, South... Pond Spinney Preston Village Pond Prestwold Natural Burial Gr... Priors Coppice Priory Water Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jub... Ransom Field Ratby Church Ratby Meadow Ratby Village Pond Rocky Plantation Roman Way Rutland Water, Egleton and ... 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 Stonesby Quarry Swadlincote Woods Swithland Reservoir Swithland Wood Syston Lake The Balancing Lagoon The Miles Piece The Orchards, Leicester The Spearwort Fields Thomas Estley College Thornton Meadows Thornton Reservoir Thurnby Lodge Nature Area Tilton Cutting NR Tom Longs Meadow Ullesthorpe Stewardship Far... Ulverscroft NR University Botanic Gardens Wadlands Wood, Towpath, Swa... Wanlip Meadows Wash Brook Nature Reserve Watermead Country Park Watersmeet Meadow Welbeck, Burbage Welford Road Cemetery Western Park Willesley Wood, Oakthorpe P... Winstanley Rough Wirlybones Wood, Ratby Wood Close Plantation Woodgate, Burbage Wymeswold Meadows Wymondham Rough Go

Total species seen at this site: 19

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.

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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

Latest records

Common Name	Latin Name	Date Recorded	Recorded By
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
Bramble agg.	Rubus fruticosus agg.	12/07/2018	Roy Denney
Common Nettle	Urtica dioica	12/07/2018	Roy Denney

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

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

Group	Common name	Latin name	Last seen
Amphibians	Common Frog	Rana temporaria	30/03/2019
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