Blenheim Park
Site of Special Scientific Interest
LocationOxfordshire
Grid referenceSP 435 155[1]
InterestBiological
Area224.3 hectares (554 acres)[1]
Notification1986[1]
Location mapMagic Map

Blenheim Park is a 224.3-hectare (554-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the outskirts of Woodstock in Oxfordshire.[1][2] It occupies most of the grounds of Blenheim Palace.

The park was once an Anglo-Saxon chase and then a twelfth-century deer park. It now has some of the best areas of pasture and oak woodland in the country. The large lakes were created in the eighteenth century, and they are regionally important for breeding and wintering birds. Invertebrates include three rare beetles which are included in the British Red Data Book of Invertebrates, Rhizophagus oblongicollis, Plectophloeus nitidus and Aeletesatomarius.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Designated Sites View: Blenheim Park". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
  2. ↑ "Map of Blenheim Park". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
  3. ↑ "Blenheim Park citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
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