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Map

Special Areas for Conservation (SACs)

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Special Protection Areas (SPAs)

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Ramsar Sites

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National Nature Reserves (NNRs)

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Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs)

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Other designations e.g.: National Parks (NPs), Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs), Local Nature Reserves (LNRs)

Y

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Details

The copse is designated a Site of Importance for Nature Conservation (SINC), which is a County designation in recognition of its ancient status.

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Red Data Book or BAP species

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Rare, threatened, EPS or SAP species

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Details N/A

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Appendix

Ancient semi-natural woodland (ASNW)

Y

Y

Maps 11 & 12

Other semi-natural woodland

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Plantations on ancient woodland sites (PAWS)

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Semi-natural features in PAWS

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Woodland margins and hedges

Y

Y

Maps 12 &13

Veteran and other notable trees (NT)

Y

.

Appendices 1 & 2

Breeding sites

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Habitats of notable species or subject to HAPs (NS)

Y

.

Appendix 2

Unimproved grassland

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Rides and open ground

Y

Y

Map 14

Valuable wildlife communities

Y

Y

Appendices 1 & 2

Feeding areas

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Lowland heath

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Peatlands

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Others

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Details

ASNW: former Wood Pasture, hence few AWVP’s. Important overstood Oak coppice.

NT: Wild Service, not recorded by surveys but found on NW edge by Dick Walters of FOPHC.

NS: Butcher’s Broom on Woodbank & Alder Buckthorn Coppice Coupe (3vi, A & B)

2.1.4 Water

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Watercourses

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Lakes

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Y

2 & 9

Ponds

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Wetland habitats

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.

Details

The former Netley Hospital Reservoir lying to the NE, is owned now by Castle Angling Club.

2.1.5 Landscape

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Landscape designated areas

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Landscape features

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Rock exposures

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Historic landscapes

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Areas of the woodland prominent from roads

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Areas of the woodland prominent from settlements

Y

2

Details

Priors Hill Copse and Hound Grove jointly form a north-easterly back-drop to Butlocks Heath.

2.1.6 Cultural features

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Public rights of way            (PRW)

Y

Y

2

Prominent viewing points

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Permissive footpaths          (WW)

Y

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14

Areas managed with traditional management systems                            (TMS)

Y

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14

Details

PRW: Public footpath 13 forms the south-eastern edge of this ownership.

WW: There is one managed looping permissive path and numerous ‘desire lines’ in the Copse.

TMS: Areas of Coppice-with-Standards and High Forest.