Gloucestershire Pasqueflower Reserve

Barnsley Warren

Site of Special Scientific Interest
Example - pasqueflower (Pulsatilla vulgaris)
Location within Gloucestershire
Area of Search	Gloucestershire
Grid reference	SP055064
Coordinates	51°45′22″N 1°55′18″W / 51.7562°N 1.9217°W / 51.7562; -1.9217Coordinates: 51°45′22″N 1°55′18″W / 51.7562°N 1.9217°W / 51.7562; -1.9217
Interest	Biological
Area	61.3 hectares
Notification	1954
Natural England website

Barnsley Warren (grid reference SP055064) is a 61.3-hectare (151-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 1954 and renotified in 1984. The site is also a Nature Conservation Review site. It lies in a steep-sided dry valley, east of the A429, northeast of Cirencester in the Cotswolds. The site is listed in the 'Cotswold District' Local Plan 2001-2011 (on line) as a Key Wildlife Site (KWS).

Following the introduction of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act, the whole of the site was designated "access land" and is therefore open to public access.

There are seven units of assessment and the Gloucestershire Pasqueflower Reserve is unit 4.

Within the boundary of the Warren, at grid reference SP052071, is the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust's Gloucestershire Pasqueflower Reserve which is a 5.3-hectare (13-acre) site. Detailed information is published in the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust nature reserves handbook.

Pasqueflower (Pulsatilla vulgaris) is found in larger quantities here than anywhere else in the Cotswolds, which are at the western limit of this species' European range. The flowers bloom in late April or early May. The population has been estimated at over twenty thousand plants.