Ashleworth Ham is a large area of grassland on the Severn floodplain, north of Ashleworth

Ashleworth

Ashleworth is a village and civil parish in the Tewkesbury district of Gloucestershire, England, with a population of 553 , about six miles north of Gloucester...

 in Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean....

, England. It is registered as a Site of Special Scientific Interest

Site of Special Scientific Interest

A Site of Special Scientific Interest is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom. SSSIs are the basic building block of site-based nature conservation legislation and most other legal nature/geological conservation designations in Great Britain are based upon...

. Ashleworth Ham received this designation because it is one of three sites in the Severn Vale where migratory waterfowl winter. In addition, some parts of Ashleworth Ham are of special botanical interest.

It is a Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve

Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust

The Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust is the Gloucestershire local partner in a conservation network of 47 Wildlife Trusts. The Wildlife Trusts are local charities with the specific aim of protecting the United Kingdom's natural heritage...

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External links

• http://www.english-nature.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1000526.pdf
• Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust website