# Groby Pool and Woods

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Protected area in Leicestershire, England

Groby Pool and Woods Site of Special Scientific Interest Location of Groby Pool and Woods. Location Leicestershire Grid reference SK 519 082[1] Interest Biological Area 29.0 hectares[1] Notification 1983[1] Location map Magic Map

**Groby Pool and Woods** is a 29 hectare biological [Site of Special Scientific Interest](/source/Site_of_Special_Scientific_Interest) north of [Groby](/source/Groby) in [Leicestershire](/source/Leicestershire).[1][2]

Groby Pool is the largest natural lake in the county, and it is used by many wintering wildfowl. The marginal vegetation is diverse, and there is also wet woodland and meadows which have grasses such as [common bent](/source/Common_bent), [sweet vernal grass](/source/Sweet_vernal_grass) and [crested dog's-tail](/source/Crested_dog's-tail).[3]

There are footpaths through the site.[4]

## 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: Groby Pool and Woods"](https://designatedsites.naturalengland.org.uk/SiteDetail.aspx?SiteCode=S1000094&SiteName=groby&countyCode=&responsiblePerson=&SeaArea=&IFCAArea=). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 12 November 2017.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-map_2-0)** ["Map of Groby Pool and Woods"](http://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.aspx?startTopic=Designations&activelayer=sssiIndex&query=HYPERLINK%3D%271000094%27). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 12 November 2017.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Groby Pool and Woods citation"](http://www.sssi.naturalengland.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1000094.pdf) (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 12 November 2017.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Groby Pool"](https://www.visitnationalforest.co.uk/view/?id=Groby-Pool). The National Forest. Retrieved 12 November 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

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