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Encyclopedia > Alverstone Mead

Alverstone Mead Local Nature Reserve is a lowland freshwater wetland nature reserve close to Sandown, Isle of Wight.


The site is on the floodplain of the Eastern Yar, and is a popular spot for birdwatchers. The old trackbed of the Newport-Sandown railway runs through it, and is now a cycleway.


It is owned by the Isle of Wight Council and leased to the Wight Nature Fund.




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Alverstone Mead Nature Reserve on the Isle of Wight (209 words)
The Reserve is called "Alverstone Mead" after the largest field in the area shown on the 1823 tithe map.
This is the County's seventh Local Nature Reserve, with 18 hectares (44 acres) of ancient woodland, alder carr, hay meadows, wet meadows and ditches.
The Reserve's woods are home to the red squirrel and dormouse and the ditches hold good populations of water vole and some species of dragonfly.
This is Hampshire | CommuniGate | Wildlife Workers (815 words)
Alverstone Mead was purchased by Wight Nature Fund through public subscription and is one of the few remaining water meadows in England.
Water levels are carefully controlled in the traditional manner so that flooding during the winter allows a chemical-free growth of grass for cattle to graze on in the summer.
The old-hay-meadow plant, Yellowrattle, has appeared on Skinner's Mead which is good news as it is partially parasitic on grass and will therefore help keep the sward low, which in turn should allow a greater variety of plant species to have a chance of flourishing.
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