Southorpe Meadow

 

Southorpe  Meadow is a small, wildflower-rich hay meadow with the ridge and furrow structure created by a medieval oxen-plough still visible. The show of wild flowers begins in spring with cowslips. Look closely in the damper furrows in early summer and you’ll see adder’s-tongue fern nestling beneath the taller grasses.

[ngg src=”galleries” ids=”2″ display=”basic_slideshow” interval=”5000″ show_thumbnail_link=”0″]Southorpe Meadow is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire and is one of the reserves in the John Clare Living Landscape.

VIDEO LINK: You can click here to watch a great video about Southorpe Meadow, produced by our friends from the Wildlife Trust.

Their webpage is here – it will open as a separate tab in your browser

BCN Southorpe Meadow

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