# Cribb's Meadow

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Nature reserve in Leicestershire, England

Cribb's Meadow Site of Special Scientific Interest Path along the disused railway embankment which runs through Cribb's Meadow Location of Cribb's Meadow. Location Leicestershire Grid reference SK 899 188[1] Interest Biological Area 4.2 hectares[1] Notification 1983[1] Location map Magic Map

**Cribb's Meadow** is a 4.2-hectare (10-acre) nature reserve east of [Wymondham](/source/Wymondham) in [Leicestershire](/source/Leicestershire). It is owned and managed by the [Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust](/source/Leicestershire_and_Rutland_Wildlife_Trust), and is designated a biological [Site of Special Scientific Interest](/source/Site_of_Special_Scientific_Interest) under the name Cribb's Lodge Meadows.[1][2][3] It is also a [National Nature Reserve](/source/National_Nature_Reserve)[4] and a [Nature Conservation Review](/source/Nature_Conservation_Review) site, Grade 2.[5]

The embankment of a disused railway runs through this [ridge and furrow](/source/Ridge_and_furrow) neutral meadow on [boulder clay](/source/Boulder_clay). The diverse flora includes [adder's tongue fern](/source/Ophioglossum_vulgatum), [pepper saxifrage](/source/Pepper_saxifrage), [hayrattle](/source/Hayrattle) and [green-winged orchid](/source/Green-winged_orchid).[6]

There is access from Fosse Lane, and a footpath runs through the southern end.

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-dsv_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-dsv_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-dsv_1-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-dsv_1-3) ["Designated Sites View: Cribb's Lodge Meadows"](https://designatedsites.naturalengland.org.uk/SiteDetail.aspx?SiteCode=S1003735&SiteName=cribb&countyCode=&responsiblePerson=&SeaArea=&IFCAArea=). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 4 September 2017.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-map_2-0)** ["Map of Cribb's Lodge Meadows"](http://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.aspx?startTopic=Designations&activelayer=sssiIndex&query=HYPERLINK%3D%271003735%27). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 4 September 2017.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-LRWT_3-0)** ["Cribb's Meadow"](http://www.lrwt.org.uk/nature-reserves/cribbs-meadow/). Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 4 September 2017.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Designated Sites View: Cribb's Meadow"](https://designatedsites.naturalengland.org.uk/SiteGeneralDetail.aspx?SiteCode=1007209&SiteName=cribb&countyCode=&responsiblePerson=&SeaArea=&IFCAArea=). National Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 4 September 2017.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Ratcliffe, Derek, ed. (1977). *A Nature Conservation Review*. Vol. 2. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 158. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0521-21403-3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0521-21403-3).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["Cribb's Lodge Meadows citation"](https://web.archive.org/web/20160304072802/http://www.sssi.naturalengland.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1003735.pdf) (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Archived from [the original](http://www.sssi.naturalengland.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1003735.pdf) (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 4 September 2017.

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v t e Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Leicestershire Biological Allexton Wood Ashby Canal Bardon Hill Barrow Gravel Pits Beacon Hill, Hangingstone and Outwoods Benscliffe Wood Blackbrook Reservoir Botcheston Bog Bradgate Park and Cropston Reservoir Breedon Cloud Wood and Quarry Breedon Hill Briery Wood Heronry, Belvoir Buddon Wood and Swithland Reservoir Burbage Wood and Aston Firs Cave's Inn Pits Charnwood Lodge Chater Valley Coalville Meadows Cotes Grassland Cribb's Lodge Meadows Croft Hill Croft Pasture Croxton Park Debdale Meadow, Muston Dimminsdale Donington Park Eye Brook Reservoir Eye Brook Valley Woods Frisby Marsh Grace Dieu and High Sharpley Grantham Canal Great Bowden Borrowpit Groby Pool and Woods Harby Hill Wood Holly Rock Fields Holwell Mouth Kendall's Meadow Kilby - Foxton Canal King Lud's Entrenchments and The Drift Launde Big Wood Leighfield Forest Lockington Marshes Loughborough Meadows Lount Meadows Misterton Marshes Muston Meadows Narborough Bog Newton Burgoland Marshes Oakley Wood Owston Woods Pasture and Asplin Woods River Eye River Mease Roecliffe Manor Lawns Saddington Reservoir Sheepy Fields Sheet Hedges Wood Stanford Park Stonesby Quarry Swithland Wood and The Brand Terrace Hills Pasture Twenty Acre Piece Ulverscroft Valley Wymondham Rough Geological Bardon Hill Quarry Beacon Hill, Hangingstone and Outwoods Bradgate Park and Cropston Reservoir Breedon Cloud Wood and Quarry Buddon Wood and Swithland Reservoir Charnwood Lodge Cliffe Hill Quarry Croft and Huncote Quarry Dimminsdale Enderby Warren Quarry Gipsy Lane Pit Grace Dieu and High Sharpley Ives Head Main Quarry, Mountsorrel Newhurst Quarry One Barrow Plantation Shepshed Cutting Sproxton Quarry Tilton Cutting

v t e Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust Blaby Croft Pasture Narborough Bog Charnwood Cossington Meadows Lea Meadows Loughborough Big Meadow Mountsorrel Meadows Rocky Plantation Ulverscroft Wanlip Meadows Wymeswold Meadows Harborough Great Merrible Wood Launde Woods Tilton Railway Cutting Hinckley and Bosworth Altar Stones Melton Cribb's Meadow Holwell Reserves Stonesby Quarry Wymondham Rough North West Leicestershire Charley Woods Charnwood Lodge Cloud Wood Dimminsdale Kelham Bridge Oadby and Wigston Lucas Marsh Rutland Bloody Oaks Quarry Ketton Quarry Merry's Meadows Prior's Coppice Rutland Water

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