Aller and Beer Woods


Aller and Beer Woods
Aller and Beer Woods (Somerset)
Aller and Beer Woods
Shown within Somerset

Coordinates: 51°04′15″N 2°51′07″W / 51.07072, -2.85202
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Area of Search Somerset
Grid Reference ST404305
Interest Biological
Area 140.6 acres (0.569 km2/0.2197 sq mi)
Notification 1952 (1952)
English Nature Website

Aller and Beer Woods (grid reference ST404305) is a 56.9 hectares (141 acres) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest. off the A372 Othery to Langport road near Aller in Somerset. It was notified in 1952.

This Somerset Wildlife Trust reserve, which is about 3.5 kilometres (2 mi) north-west of Langport and 11 kilometres (7 mi) south-east of Bridgwater, consists of large blocks of semi-natural ancient woodland along the west-facing slope of Aller Hill, overlooking King's Sedgemoor. The reserve is about about 40 ha (99 acres) and the underlying geology of most of it is Lias limestone. Prior to the twentieth century it appears to have been managed for centuries as traditional coppice woodland.1

Aller and Beer Woods are outstanding examples of ancient, escarpment woodland managed in a traditional coppice-with-standards system. The woodland is a variant of the Calcareous Ash/Wych Elm stand-type, with Pedunculate Oak (Quercus robur), and Ash (Fraxinus excelsior) the dominant canopy trees throughout, and with scattered concentrations of Wych Elm (Ulmus glabra). Ancient woodland indicators include Small-leaved Lime (Tilia cordata), and Wild Service Tree (Sorbus torminalis), both of which are locally common. Plants of particular interest include Bird's Nest Orchid (Neottia nidus-avis), Greater Butterfly Orchid (Platanthera chlorantha) and the very rare Red Data Book species Purple Gromwell (Buglossoides purpurocaerulea).2

Nearby is the Aller Hill SSSI.

References

  1. ^ "Aller and Beer Woods". Wildlife Trusts. Retrieved on 2006-08-12.
  2. ^ "Aller and Beer Woods". English Nature. Retrieved on 2006-08-12.
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Biological Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset
Summary:
SSSIs:
Aller and Beer Woods  · Aller Hill  · Asham Wood  · Axbridge Hill and Fry's Hill  · Babcary Meadows  · Barle Valley  · Barrington Hill Meadows  · Berrow Dunes  · Black Down and Sampford Commons  · Brean Down  · Bridgwater Bay  · Briggins Moor  · Catcott, Edington and Chilton Moors  · Chancellor's Farm  · Cheddar Complex  · Cheddar Reservoir  · Cheddar Wood  · Cleeve Hill  · Cogley Wood  · Crook Peak to Shute Shelve Hill  · Curry and Hay Moors  · Deadman  · Draycott Sleights  · Dunster Park and Heathlands  · East Polden Grasslands  · Ebbor Gorge  · Edford Woods and Meadows  · Exmoor Coastal Heaths  · Fivehead Woods and Meadow  · Freshmoor  · Friar's Oven  · Ge-mare Farm Fields  · Great Breach and Copley Woods  · Grove Farm  · Hardington Moor  · Hestercombe House  · Holme Moor & Clean Moor  · King's Sedgemoor  · Kingdown and Middledown  · Kingweston Meadows  · Lang's Farm  · Langford Heathfield  · Langmead and Weston Level  · Long Lye  · Long Lye Meadow  · Longleat Woods  · Millwater  · Moorlinch  · Nettlecombe Park  · North Brewham Meadows  · North Curry Meadow  · North Exmoor  · North Moor  · Old Ironstone Works, Mells  · Perch  · Porlock Ridge and Saltmarsh  · Postlebury Wood  · Priddy Pools  · Prior's Park & Adcombe Wood  · Quantocks  · Quants  · Ringdown  · River Barle  · Rodney Stoke  · Roebuck Meadows  · Ruttersleigh  · Severn Estuary  · Shapwick Heath  · Sharpham Moor Plot  · South Exmoor  · Southey and Gotleigh Moors  · Southlake Moor  · Sparkford Wood  · St. Dunstan's Well Catchment  · Stowell Meadow  · Street Heath  · Tealham and Tadham Moors  · Thurlbear Wood and Quarrylands  · Twinhills Woods and Meadows  · Vallis Vale  · Walton and Ivythorn Hills  · West Moor  · West Sedgemoor  · Westhay Heath  · Westhay Moor  · Wet Moor  · Whitevine Meadows  · Windsor Hill Marsh  · Wookey Hole  · Woolhayes Farm
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