Bardney Limewoods

Southrey wood entrance.
Wickenby wood entrance.

The Bardney Limewoods National Nature Reserve is a collection of small woodlands near Bardney in Lincolnshire.[1][2] The reserve includes about half the Limewoods in the area. Cocklode Wood, part of the Bardney Limewoods, is the best surviving spread of medieval limes in England. [3]

The Limewoods are diverse in tree species and ground species, but are dominated by the Small-leaved Lime Tilia cordata.[1] Linguistic and placename evidence suggests that the very name of Lincolnshire is anciently assosciated with the Lime, Linde being the Saxon name for the tree.[4][5]

Bardney Limewoods NNR is managed by the Forestry Commission.[2] A visitors centre is maintained at Chambers Wood Farm.[6] The NNR is said to include a quarter of the county's ancient woodland.[4]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Bardney Limewoods NNR". Lincolnshire County Council. Retrieved 26 January 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Bardney Limewoods NNR". Natural England. Retrieved 26 January 2013.
  3. ↑ Woodland Trust The test-tube tree'’ Broadleaf Anon Spring 2014 p7
  4. 1 2 "Bardney Limewoods". Lincolnshire wildlife trust. Archived from the original on 14 April 2012. Retrieved 21 July 2013.
  5. ↑ c.f. modern German Linden.
  6. ↑ "Chambers Wood visitors centre". Forestry Commission. Retrieved 26 January 2012.

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