Empingham Bloody Oaks Roadside Verge
Selected Wild Place / Other Wild Places / Public Rights of Way / VC55 boundary
The verge is just off the A1, on Grantham Lane heading southwest. The site is limited to the verge in front of Bloody Oaks woodland.
There is no bus service to this area.
- Road Verge
- Local Wildlife Site
Site species count:
Designated a Local Wildlife Site in 2003, Bloody Oaks verge covers an area of 2500m2, and is approximately 200 metres in length. It is located on Grantham Lane by the A1 on the northwestern side of the road only. The main habitats are calcareous grassland, mesotrophic grassland, and mixed grassland.
Recorded species include: Agrimony, Bee Orchid, Blue Fleabane, Clustered Bellflower, Eyebright, Purging Flax, Yellow-wort, Autumn Hawkbit, Rough Hawkbit, Common Bird’s-foot Trefoil, Black Knapweed, Cowslip, Glaucous Sedge, Common Restharrow, Red Clover, Ox-eye Daisy, Meadow Vetchling, Burnet Saxifrage, Angelica, and Hard Rush.
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