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LWS selection criteria for running water courses include:
- a population of White-clawed crayfish
- a population of Bullhead and/or Brown Trout or Salmon
- a breeding site or high levels of Otter activity
- a colony of Water Vole
- a good amphibian assemblage
- a good grass snake population
- a good assemblage of nymphs or larvae of dragonfly and damselfly species [or other aquatic invertebrates]
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LWS along River Don 01 Western Moors 50 Wogden Foot 15 Black Moor Common 61 Romtickle Bridge 40 Forge +Tin Mill Rocher 41 Wharncliffe Chase ... ... Scout Dike 3 Broadstone Reservoir 4 Ingbirchworth Reservoir 5 Royd Moor Reservoir 6 Scout Dyke Reservoir |
LWS along River Dearne 48 Bretton Park 25 Canal at Wilthorpe 54 Old Mill Lane... 26 Cliffe Wood (DVCP) 31 Sunny Bank, Storrs wd 35 Edderthorpe Ings 38 Old Moor & Wath Ings 39 Bolton-on-Dearne... ... ... |
... Cawthorne Dike 11 Gunthwaite dam 17 Daking Brook ... Silkstone Beck 16 Silkstone Fall wood ... Knoll Dike 46 Elsecar Reservoir ... Cudworth Dike 60 Rabbit Ings 27 Carlton Marsh |
LWS along River Dove 24 Worsbrough reservoir 51 Barrow Colliery 57 Swaithe Flood Meadows 55 Parkhill nature reserve 36 Broomhill Flash ... Rockley Dike 23 Rockley Wood ... Dodworth Dike 21 Falthwaite & Lowe wd |
Local Wildlife Sites.
The only LWS designated because of its running water habitat is Dakin brook which runs through Cannon Hall; however many LWS have rivers or streams running associated with them.
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For a larger image showing smaller water courses click the image above.
Barnsleybiodiversity.org.uk/sites.html for more information.
Sites: Rivers, Streams and Running Water
The source of the River Don is on the western Barnsley moors, beyond Winscar reservoir. The River Dearne runs into Barnsley through Bretton Lake in the north. The watershed dividing the Don and Dearne catchments follows the line of the A629 to the east of Penistone.
National river priority habitat in Barnsley includes:
River headwaters:
Headwaters to Don & Little Don.
Active shingle rivers:
Cawthorne Dyke and Don from Scout Dyke to Little Don.
Rivers with key species.
With a priority species strongly dependent on habitat quality: Cawthorne Dike (Dakin Brook) with White-clawed Crayfish and Southern Iron Blue Fly recorded.
With six priority species less dependent on habitat quality: Dearne with Eel, Brown Trout, Bullhead, Water Vole, Otter, Soprano Pipistrelle bat and Reed Bunting (breeding near rivers). Salmon would also count.
A number of rivers or streams in Barnsley have one to four priority species recorded.
The local priority habitat includes the water courses that support priority species, good populations of key species or provide rich sites for invertebrates or plants.
However all rivers and streams in Barnsley have possible value for wildlife and should be viewed as potential local priority habitat.
To the west of the watershed, Scout Dike and the Little Don join the Don itself, whereas all streams east of the watershed flow first into the River Dove or directly into the River Dearne.
Running Water Sites