Biodiversity
Action
Plan
1. Western Moors: Upland Heathland, Blanket Bog, Purple Moor Grass and Rush Pasture, River
2. Whitley Edge: Lowland Heathland, Purple Moor Grass and Rush Pasture, unimproved acid grassland, - a heath/acid grassland matrix.
3. Broadstone Reservoir: Reservoir, Lowland Heathland, River, unimproved acid grassland, - a heath/acid grassland matrix
4. Ingbirchworth Reservoir: Reservoir, Lowland Heathland, unimproved acid grassland, River,
5. Royd Moor Reservoir: Reservoir, Lowland Heathland, unimproved acid grassland, Lowland Mixed Deciduous Woodland,
6. Scout Dike Reservoir: Reservoir, Lowland Heathland, Purple Moor Grass and Rush Pasture, River.
7. Small Shaw and High Bank: Lowland Heathland, part of a much larger set of habitats of heath and acid grassland
8. Hartcliff Hill: Lowland Heathland, Mixed Deciduous Woodland, acid grassland and marshy grassland, scrub – mosaic, Rivers
9. Brock Holes: Lowland Heathland, acid grassland and marshy grassland, scrub – mosaic, springs/streams
10.Hollin and Spring Woods: Ancient woodland, Lowland Mixed Deciduous Woodland, Rivers,
11.Gunthwaite Dam and Clough Wood: Ancient woodland, Lowland Mixed Deciduous Woodland, Wet Woodland, Ponds, Rivers,
12.Margery Wood: Ancient woodland, Lowland Mixed Deciduous Woodland, Ponds,
13.North Wood: Ancient woodland Lowland Mixed Deciduous Woodland, Wet Woodland,
14.Royd, Vicar, Lindley and Coates Great Wood: Ancient woodland, Lowland Mixed Deciduous Woodland,
15.Black Moor Common: Mixed Deciduous Woodland, Lowland Dry Acidic Grassland, Lowland Heathland, Scrub – nearby river corridor
16.Silkstone Fall Wood: Ancient woodland (partly planted), Lowland Mixed Deciduous Woodland, Ponds,
17.Daking Brook: River, -stream with White-clawed Crayfish
18.Mag Wood Meadow: Lowland Meadow / Neutral grassland
20.Hugset Wood: Ancient woodland, Mixed Deciduous Woodland,
21.Falthwaite and Lowe Wood: Ancient woodland, Lowland Mixed Deciduous Woodland, Ponds, River, grassland
22.Stainborough Park: Wood Pasture and Parkland, Lowland Dry Acidic Grassland, Ponds, Veteran Trees
23.Rockley Woods: Ancient woodland, Lowland Mixed Deciduous Woodland, Wet Woodland, Rivers, Ponds
24.Worsbrough Reservoir: Reservoir, Wet Woodland, Reedbed, River, Mixed Deciduous Woodland. Hedgerow, Meadow (Neutral Grassland)
25.Barnsley Canal at Wilthorpe: Floodplain Grazing Marsh, Ponds, Lowland Meadows/Neutral Grassland, Lowland Dry Acidic Grassland, Rivers, Wet woodland
26.Cliff Wood: Lowland Mixed Deciduous Woodland, Rivers, Ponds,
27.Carlton Marsh: Ponds, Neutral Grassland, Swamp, Reedbed
28.Stairfoot Disused Railway: Lowland Mixed Deciduous Woodland, Ponds, Rivers., grasslands, scrub
29.Wombwell Wood: Ancient woodland, Lowland Mixed Deciduous Woodland, Ponds. Remnants of heath.
30.Short Wood and Hay Green: Ancient woodland, Lowland Mixed Deciduous Woodland, Wet Woodland, Lowland Meadow, semi-improved neutral grassland, with a species-poor hedgerow.
31.Sunny Bank, Horse Carr and Storrs Wood: Ancient woodland, Lowland Mixed Deciduous Woodland, some unimproved neutral grassland.
32.Hood Green Pastures: Lowland Dry Acidic Grassland (NVC U4+U5), Hedgerow.
33.Redbrook Pastures: Lowland Meadows / neutral grassland. Two fields with clearly visible traces of ridge and furrow. Pred
34.West Haigh Wood: Ancient woodland, Lowland Mixed Deciduous Woodland, Wet Woodland, Lowland Heathland (small amount),
35.Edderthorpe Ings: Ponds, marshy and neutral grassland, marginal and swamp habitats and small areas of scrub and woodland.
36.Broomhill Flash: Floodplain and Grazing Marsh, Ponds,
37.Gipsy Marsh: Ponds, Lowland Meadow,
38.Old Moor and Wath Ings: Floodplain and Grazing Marsh, Lowland Meadows, Reedbeds,
39.Bolton-on-Dearne Wetland: Floodplain and Grazing Marsh, Ponds
40.Forge Rocher and Tin Mill Rocher: Ancient woodland, Lowland Mixed Deciduous Woodland, Ponds, Rivers,
41.Wharncliffe Chase and Wood: Ancient woodland, Lowland Mixed Deciduous Woodland, Lowland Dry Acid Grassland, Ponds, Rivers,
42.West Wood: Ancient woodland, Lowland Mixed Deciduous Woodland, Rivers,
43.Sowell Pond: Pond,
44.Black Lane: Hedgerow
45.Skiers Spring Wood: Ancient woodland, Lowland Mixed Deciduous woodland
46.Elsecar Reservoir: Reservoir, Wet Woodland (willow carr, swamp), River, modified neutral grassland
47.Hoyland Bank Wood: Ancient woodland, Lowland Mixed Deciduous Woodland, Wet Woodland, Ponds, River,
48.Bretton Park: Lake, Wood Pasture and Parkland, Lowland Mixed Deciduous Woodland, Ponds,
49.Barnsley Canal: Reedbeds, Hedgerows
50.Wogden Foot: Open Mosaic on Previously Developed Land. A mix of acidic, neutral and calcareous grassland habitats
51.Barrow Colliery Site: Open Mosaic Habitats on Previously Developed Land, Lowland Mixed Deciduous Woodland
52.Brierley Meadows: Lowland Dry Acidic Grassland
53.Kendal Scrub Green: Lowland Meadows, Hedgerows, Scrub, adjacent to wooded wildlife corridor
54.Old Mill Lane Culvert Bat Roost: Standing water, River, Lowland Mixed Deciduous Woodland,
55.Parkhill Nature Reserve: Lowland Mixed Deciduous Woodland, Ponds,
56.Potter Holes Plantation: Lowland Mixed Deciduous Woodland
57.Swaithe Flood Meadows: river corridor habitats
58.Wool Greaves Meadows: Lowland Meadows, Lowland Dry Acid Grassland, Hedgerows
59.Glow Worm Site, Thurgoland
60 Rabbit Ings
61 Romticle Viaduct and Thurgoland Tunnel [bat roosts]
62 Mapplewell Tip: open Mosaic on Previous Developed Land
63 Elsecar Colliery
Habitats within Local Wildlife Sites.