Bardney Limewoods

Wickenby Wood entrance

The Bardney Limewoods, part of the 'Lincolnshire Limewoods National Nature Reserve', is a collection of small woodlands near Bardney in Lincolnshire.

The reserve includes about half the Limewoods in the area. Cocklode Wood, part of the Bardney Limewoods, is the best surviving spread of mediæval limes in the country.

The Limewoods are diverse in tree species and ground species, but are dominated by the Small-leaved Lime Tilia cordata.

Southrey Wood entrance

It has beeb argued by some philologists that the names of Lindsey and of Lincolnshire refer to lime trees, known as 'Lind' in Old English and the ancient Germanic tongues: however the county is named form the city and it is more widely accepted that Lincoln derives its name long before Germanic tongues came to Britain, from Lindum Colonia, which perhaps is from the Celtic 'Lindon' for pool, referring to the Brayford Pool in Lincoln.

The Bardney Limewoods reserve is managed by the Forestry Commission. A visitors' centre is maintained at Chambers Wood Farm. The NNR is said to include a quarter of the county's ancient woodland.

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  Succisa pratensis at Southrey Wood
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  Lythrum salicaria in Southrey Wood
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  Lychnis flos-cuculi in Gosling Corner
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  Ajuga reptans in Gosling Corner
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  Pulicaria dysenterica with two species of butterfly, in Gosling Corner
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  Allium ursinum in Gosling Corner

See also

• Southrey Wood

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Bardney Limewoods)

• Lincolnshire Limewoods