Englemere_Pond
Englemere Pond is a 26.1-hectare (64-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the southern outskirts of North Ascot in Berkshire.[1][2] The site is also a Local Nature Reserve. It is owned by the Crown Estate and managed by Bracknell Forest Borough Council.[3][4]
| Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
| Location | Berkshire |
|---|---|
| Grid reference | SU 904 685[1] |
| Coordinates | 51.409°N 0.701°W / 51.409; -0.701 |
| Interest | Biological |
| Area | 26.1 hectares (64 acres)[1] |
| Notification | 1983[1] |
| Location map | Magic Map |
The nature reserve is situated between Martins Heron railway station and Ascot railway station.[5] It features a shallow acidic lake and marsh land.[5]
The land for most of its recorded history has been part of a great Royal Hunting Forest that surrounded Windsor Castle.[6]
In 1990 the site was declared as a local nature reserve by Bracknell Forest Borough Council.[3]
In August 2016 an unexploded old military shell was discovered in Englemere Pond and blown up in a controlled explosion by the police.[7]
The fauna of the reserve include the following:[5][3][8][9]
Birds
- Little grebe
- Water rail
- Great spotted woodpecker
- Coal tit
- Long-tailed tit
- Goldcrest
- Nuthatch
- Treecreeper
- Jay
- Common reed bunting
- Common chiffchaff
- Eurasian blackcap
- Garden warbler
- Sedge warbler
- Eurasian reed warbler
- Spotted flycatcher
- Tawny owl
- Lesser redpoll
- Gadwall
- Northern shoveler
- Eurasian teal
- Sand martin
- Swallow
Invertebrates
- Hairy dragonfly
- Common hawker
- Golden-ringed dragonfly
- Libellula depressa
- Keeled skimmer
- Beautiful demoiselle
- Banded demoiselle
- Lestes sponsa
- Erythromma najas
- Large red damselfly
- Blue-tailed damselfly
- Enallagma cyathigerum
- Azure damselfly
- Southern Hawker
- Brown hawker
- Migrant Hawker
- Emperor dragonfly
- Downy emerald
- Brilliant emerald
- Black-tailed skimmer
- Four-spotted chaser
- Sympetrum danae
- Ruddy darter
- Common darter
Reptiles, amphibians and other vertebrates
The flora of the reserve include the following:[10][8][5]
Trees
Other
- "Designated Sites View: Englemere Pond". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
- "Map of Englemere Pond". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
- "Englemere Pond". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
- "Map of Englemere Pond". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
- "Englemere Pond Nature Reserve leaflet" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 February 2017. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
- "Englemere Pond: Parks to visit - Bracknell Forest Council". Bracknell-forest.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 5 February 2017. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
- "Unexploded bomb found in Winkfield Row pond". Get Reading. 22 August 2016. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
- "Englemere Pond". Berksoc.org.uk. 20 June 2014. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
- "The Dragonflies in Bracknell Forest Borough: Overview for the Period 1993 to 2012" (PDF). John Ward-Smith. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
- "Englemere Pond Woodland trust". woodland trust. Retrieved 5 February 2017.