Amwell Quarry

Amwell QuarrySite of Special Scientific Interest

Location| Hertfordshire
Grid reference| TL377129
Interest| Biological
Area| 37.0 hectares
Notification| 1999
Location map| Magic Map

Amwell Quarry or Amwell Nature Reserve is a 37 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Great Amwell in Hertfordshire. The planning authority is East Hertfordshire District Council.[1][2] It is also part of the Lee Valley Ramsar Site and Special Protection Area, and is owned and managed by the Hertfordshire and Middlesex Wildlife Trust.[3][4]

The site is a former gravel pit, which has been restored to become a wetland nature reserve with two lakes, Great Hardmead Lake and Hollycross Lake. It is internationally important for wintering wildfowl, and is Britain's most important site for dragonflies. It also has large communities of damselflies and breeding birds. Plants include marsh dock and hairlike pondweed, both nationally rare. Amwell has a quarter of all British species of molluscs.[1][5]

There is access from Amwell Lane and the site is open at all times.[5]

## See also[edit]

* List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Hertfordshire

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b "Amwell Quarry citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
2. ^ "Map of Amwell Quarry". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
3. ^ "Amwell Nature Reserve". Lee Valley Regional Park Authority. 2014. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
4. ^ "Lee Valley". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
5. ^ a b "Amwell". Hertfordshire and Middlesex Wildlife Trust. Archived from the original on 19 April 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2014.

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Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Hertfordshire

Biological|

* Aldbury Nowers
* Alpine Meadow
* Amwell Quarry
* Ashridge Commons and Woods
* Ashwell Springs
* Benington High Wood
* Blagrove Common
* Bricket Wood Common
* Croxley Common Moor
* Frogmore Meadows
* Great Hormead Park
* Hertford Heath
* Hunsdon Mead
* Knebworth Woods
* Moor Hall Meadows
* Northaw Great Wood
* Oddy Hill and Tring Park
* Patmore Heath
* Plashes Wood
* Redwell Wood
* Roughdown Common
* Rye Meads
* Sarratt Bottom
* Sawbridgeworth Marsh
* Sherrardspark Wood
* Tewinbury
* Therfield Heath
* Thorley Flood Pound
* Tring Reservoirs
* Tring Woodlands
* Turnford and Cheshunt Pits
* Wain Wood
* Water End Swallow Holes
* Whippendell Wood
* Wormley-Hoddesdonpark Wood North
* Wormley-Hoddesdonpark Wood South

Geological|

* Castle Lime Works Quarry
* Downfield Pit, Westmill
* Hillcollins Pit
* Little Heath Pit
* Moor Mill Quarry, West
* Oughtonhead Lane
* Westwood Quarry

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Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust

Dacorum|

* Aldbury Nowers
* Alpine Meadow
* Long Deans
* Tring Reservoirs

East Hertfordshire|

* Amwell Quarry
* Balls Wood
* Danemead
* Hertford Heath
* Hunsdon and Eastwick Meads
* King's Meads
* Patmore Heath
* Rye Meads
* Tewin Orchard and Hopkyns Wood
* Tewinbury
* Thorley Wash
* Waterford Heath
* Willowmead

Hertsmere|

* Hilfield Park Reservoir

North Hertfordshire|

* Ashwell Quarry and Quarry Springs
* Blagrove Common
* Fox Covert
* Hawkins Wood
* Hexton Chalk Pit
* Oughtonhead
* Purwell Ninesprings

Stevenage|

* Ridlins Mire

Three Rivers|

* Frogmore Meadows
* Longspring Wood
* Stocker's Lake

Watford|

* Cassiobury Park

Welwyn Hatfield|

* Fir and Pond Woods
* Gobions Wood
* Lemsford Springs
* Stanborough Reedmarsh
* Stocking Springs Wood

Hillingdon|

* Broadwater Lake
* Old Park Wood
* Uxbridge Alderglade

Former reserves|

* Barkway Chalk Pit
* Darland's Lake Nature Reserve
* Hill End Pit
* Marshalls Heath
* Pryor's Wood
* Rowley Green Common
* Sawbridgeworth Marsh
* Telegraph Hill

Coordinates: 51°47′47″N 0°00′19″W﻿ / ﻿51.79647°N 0.00532°W﻿ / 51.79647; -0.00532
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