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Barlaston
Lock Wood
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Hedge
woundwort
photographed in June 2001 |
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This
site, next to the Newpark housing estate near
Barlaston, contains an area of broadleaf woodland with
a stretch of marshy vegetation along it's
eastern edge and some grassland to the north.
The wood is flanked by the Trent and Mersey
canal and the Stone to Stoke-on-Trent railway
line.
The wood is dominated by mature sycamore and oak
trees with some alders, silver birch, beech and
ash. The woodland floor is rather wet and is
covered by creeping soft grass and patches of
dog's mercury. The drier patches are colonised
by bramble, honeysuckle, hedge woundwort, dog
rose and red campion.
The marshy ground to the east of the wood is
dominated by tufted hair-grass, meadowsweet,
creeping buttercup and rosebay willowherb. Bog
stitchwort, soft rush, grey willow and wild
angelica are also present. The lock overflow
channel at the southwest edge of the wood is
home to harts tongue fern and hemlock
water-dropwort, both of which are uncommon in
Staffordshire, as well as yellow iris and
brooklime.
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Lock Wood |
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