Dogsthorpe Star Pit

Dogsthorpe Star Pit is a 36.4 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI)) on the eastern outskirts of Peterborough in Cambridgeshire.[1][2] It is also designated a Local Nature Reserve,[3][4] and it is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.[5]

Dogsthorpe Star Pit
Site of Special Scientific Interest

Area of Search	Cambridgeshire
Grid reference	TF 212 026[1]
Interest	Biological
Area	36.4 hectares[1]
Notification	1993[1]
Location map	Magic Map

This former brick pit has been designated an SSSI mainly for its invertebrates, especially its water beetles, with 64 species, including four on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, Graptodytes bilineatus, Dryops similaris, Gyrinus distinctus and Myopites inulaedyssentericae. There are diverse habitats with grassland, scrub, reedbeds, sedge, bare clay and pools.[6]

There is access to the site by a footpath from Whitepost Road.[3]

References

"Designated Sites View: Dogsthorpe Star Pit". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
"Map of Dogsthorpe Star Pit". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
"Dogsthorpe Star Pit". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 20 February 2013. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
"Map of Dogsthorpe Star Pit". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
"Dogsthorpe Star Pit". Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. Archived from the original on 17 August 2016. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
"Dogsthorpe Star Pitcitation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 30 November 2016.

Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cambridgeshire

Biological

Geological

Local nature reserves in Cambridgeshire
Cambridge	Barnwell East Barnwell West Beechwoods Bramblefields Byron's Pool Coldham's Common Limekiln Close and East Pit Logan's Meadow Nine Wells Paradise Sheep's Green and Coe Fen West Pit
East Cambridgeshire	Isleham Little Downham
Fenland	Lattersey Field Ring's End
Huntingdonshire	Little Paxton Pits Somersham
Peterborough	The Boardwalks Dogsthorpe Star Pit Eye Green Grimeshaw Wood Woodston Ponds
South Cambridgeshire	Kingston and Bourn Old Railway Mare Fen Melwood St Denis Church

Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire

Bedfordshire

Bedford	Begwary Brook Cople Pits Felmersham Gravel Pits Pavenham Osier Beds Sewell Cutting Sharnbrook Summit Wymington Meadow
Central Bedfordshire	Arlesey Old Moat and Glebe Meadows Barton Gravel Pit Blow's Downs Cooper's Hill Cut-throat Meadow Dropshort Marsh Fancott Woods and Meadows Flitwick Moor King's Wood and Rammamere Heath Lancot Meadow Landpark Wood Old Warden Tunnel Pegsdon Hills and Hoo Bit The Riddy Sallowsprings Totternhoe

Cambridgeshire

Cambridge	Cherry Hinton Chalk Pits Skaters' Meadow
East Cambridgeshire	Chettisham Meadow Doghouse Grove Fordham Woods Ouse Washes Soham Meadow
Fenland	Lattersey Norwood Road
Huntingdonshire	Arthur's Meadow Brampton Wood Gamsey Wood Godmanchester Grafham Water Great Fen Houghton Meadows Lady's Wood Pingle Cutting Raveley Wood Shepherd's Close Upwood Meadows Waresley and Gransden Woods Wistow Wood Woodwalton Marsh
Peterborough	Dogsthorpe Star Pit Southorpe Meadow Southorpe Paddock Stanground Newt Ponds Stanground Wash Thorpe Wood Wansford Pasture & Standen's Pasture Woodston Ponds
South Cambridgeshire	Beechwoods Buff Wood Cambourne Fulbourn Fen Gamlingay Cinques Gamlingay Wood Hardwick Wood Hayley Wood Lower Wood Overhall Grove Shepreth L Moor Trumpington Meadows

Northamptonshire

Corby	Great Oakley Meadow King's Wood Stoke Wood End Quarter
Daventry	Byfield Pool Harlestone Heath High Wood and Meadow Pitsford Water Nature Reserve Ramsden Corner Woodford Halse
East Northamptonshire	Collyweston Quarries Ditchford Lakes and Meadows Glapthorn Cow Pastures Higham Ferrers Pits Irthlingborough Lakes and Meadows Old Sulehay Short Wood and Southwick Wood Titchmarsh Wilson's Pits
Kettering	Barford Wood and Meadows The Plens Rothwell Gullet Southfield Farm Marsh Tailby Meadow Wicksteed Park
Northampton	Abington Meadows Barnes Meadow Bradlaugh Fields Duston Mill Meadow Kingsthorpe Meadow Lings Storton's Pits
South Northamptonshire	Boddington Meadow Bugbrooke Meadow Farthinghoe Grafton Regis Meadow Mill Crook Stoke Bruerne Brick Pits
Wellingborough	Finedon Cally Banks Summer Leys

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