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Red Lodge Heath

Red Lodge Heath
Site of Special Scientific Interest
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Area of Search Suffolk
Grid reference TL 697 700
Interest Biological
Area 20.8 hectares
Notification 2005
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Red Lodge Heath is a 20.8 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Red Lodge in Suffolk.

Habitats on this site are chalk grassland, dry acid grassland, lichen heath, wet woodland and ponds. It has nationally important assemblages of rare plants and invertebrates, including a nationally important population of the nationally rare five-banded tailed diger wasp. It has several other invertebrate species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, and plants include the nationally rare smooth rupturewort.

There is access to the site from Turnpike Road.

Coordinates: 52°18′07″N 0°29′13″E / 52.302°N 0.487°E / 52.302; 0.487


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