Site Name, Designation, Grid Reference, Distance from Site Centre Point, Description rapum-ganistae (Greater Broomrape). The botanical interest of the site centres on areas of chalk grassland, which are dominated by Holcus lanatus (Yorkshire Fog) and Agrostis canina (Brown Bent-grass). There are populations of Anacamptis pyramidalis (Pyramidal Orchid), Ophrys apifera (Bee Orchid), Aceras anthropophorum (Man Orchid) and Dactylorhiza praetermissa (Southern Marsh Orchid). A tunnel, totaling around 127m in length, is extremely important, as it contains one of the largest underground roosts for hibernating bats known in Great Britain. Three species of bat regularly use the tunnel between September and April, in numbers often totaling 450 or more. It is used principally by Myotis daubentoni (Daubenton’s Bat), Myotis nattereri (Natterer’s Bat) and Plecotus auritus (Brown Long-eared Bat), but occasional visitors are Myotis mystacinus (Whiskered Bat) and Myotis brandti (Brandt’s Bat).
Bramford Meadows, LNR, TM126 468, 1334 m
Bramford Meadows LNR comprises low lying wet meadows, separated by a number of drainage ditches, and scrub in a linear strip along the River Gipping. The meadows are crossed by wet ditches and the old course of the river. The ditches support a diverse aquatic and emergent flora. The site is important for invertebrates; species of not include two species of Bush Cricket and Aricia artaxerxes (Brown Argus).
Rede Wood, LNR, TM153 506, 1420 m
Rede Wood LNR is a 7.6 hectare woodland dominated by Fraxinus excelsior (Ash), Quercus sp. (Oak) and coppiced Corylus avellana (Hazel). The woodland is home to rare species of plants and fungi; species of note include Orchis mascula (Early Purple Orchid). The site is also important for birds.
Sinks Valley, Kesgrave, SSSI, TM224 462, 1426 m
Sinks Valley is one of the few remaining valleys within the Suffolk Coast and Heaths Natural Area that are almost entirely occupied with semi-natural vegetation. It contains a full sequence of habitats from open water, fringing swamp, spring-fed fen, wet grassland and wet Alder woodland, to dry acid grassland, heathland and Oak woodland rising up the valley sides. It is this diversity of habitats, their barely interrupted sequence and their clear relation to the landform that makes Sinks Valley special. The habitats on the sites have high floristic diversity; species of note include Crassula tillaea (Mossy Stonecrop) and Juncus squarrosus (Heath Rush). The site is home to a number of rare animal species and is of particular importance for amphibians.
Ferry Cliff, Sutton, SSSI, TM279 486, 1541 m
This site is of geological interest because rocks of Palaeocene age here yield an important mammalian fauna including representatives of the seven orders, including the oldest British members of the Rodentia, Artiodactyla and Perissodactyla (rodents and hoofed animals). This locality and Belgian sites (of approximately the same age) have yielded the earliest Artiodactyls and Hyracotherium (ancestral horse) in Europe; and probably worldwide.
Ramsholt Cliff, SSSI, TM297 428, 1577 m
The Coralline Crag at this locality can be seen resting on irregular, erosional surface of London Clay, and to be overstepped by Red Crag where it comes to rest directly on London Clay. At the base of the Coralline Crag the phosphorite deposit (a 'coprolite bed' or 'Suffolk bone-bed') can be seen. This is the only locality where the Coralline Crag phosphorite deposit can be examined, and is also probably the only existing locality where the 'boxstones', phosphatic remnants of a Miocene formation can be seen in situ. The section at Ramsholt represents the most southerly and,
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