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Wingmoor Farm Meadow () is a nature reserve in Gloucestershire.〔Kelham, A, Sanderson, J, Doe, J, Edgeley-Smith, M, et al., 1979, 1990, 2002 editions, 'Nature Reserves of the Gloucestershire Trust for Nature Conservation/Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust'〕 The site is listed in the ‘Tewkesbury Borough Local Plan to 2011’, adopted March 2006, Appendix 3 'Nature Conservation',' as a Key Wildlife Site (KWS).〔(Tewkesbury Borough Local Plan to 2011, adopted March 2006, Appendix 3 'Nature Conservation', Key Wildlife Sites )〕 The site is managed by the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust under lease agreement from the Grundon Group. ==Location and habitat== The meadow is about three miles north of Cheltenham near Stoke Orchard and Bishop's Cleeve. It is in the Severn Vale. It is a single meadow within an area of gravel extraction and reclamation.〔 The field is narrow ridge-and-furrow. This is created by the way it has been ploughed. Views on the purpose of ridge-and-furrow range from the wish to increase the surface area of the field to improving the drainage systems. The soils of the Severn Vale are clay so this kind of management would help to achieve improved drainage. Many fields in the Vale of Gloucester and the Midlands were traditionally ridge-and-furrow meadows, but are now rare.〔 There is a field pond site in the north-west corner.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wingmoor Farm Meadow」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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