# Loughborough Meadows > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Loughborough_Meadows > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Loughborough_Meadows.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loughborough_Meadows > Source revision: 1254026254 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Nature reserve in Leicestershire, England Loughborough Meadows Site of Special Scientific Interest Location of Loughborough Meadows. Location Leicestershire Grid reference SK 538 216[1] Interest Biological Area 60.5 hectares (149 acres)[1] Notification 1987[1] Location map Magic Map **Loughborough Meadows** is a 60.5 hectares (149 acres) biological [Site of Special Scientific Interest](/source/Site_of_Special_Scientific_Interest) on the northern outskirts of [Loughborough](/source/Loughborough) in [Leicestershire](/source/Leicestershire), England.[1][2] An area of 35.3 hectares (87 acres) is managed as a nature reserve by the [Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust](/source/Leicestershire_and_Rutland_Wildlife_Trust).[3] This is the largest area of unimproved [alluvial](/source/Alluvial) flood meadow in the county, and wet areas are dominated by [creeping bent](/source/Agrostis_stolonifera) and [marsh foxtail](/source/Marsh_foxtail). A brook has large areas of [marsh foxtail](/source/Marsh_foxtail), and there is a field with breeding [lapwings](/source/Northern_lapwing) and [redshanks](/source/Common_redshank).[4] There is public access to the site. ## 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: Loughborough Meadows"](https://designatedsites.naturalengland.org.uk/SiteDetail.aspx?SiteCode=S1002254&SiteName=loughb&countyCode=&responsiblePerson=&SeaArea=&IFCAArea=). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 13 November 2017. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-map_2-0)** ["Map of Loughborough Meadows"](http://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.aspx?startTopic=Designations&activelayer=sssiIndex&query=HYPERLINK%3D%271002254%27). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 13 November 2017. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-LRWT_3-0)** ["Loughborough Big Meadow"](http://www.lrwt.org.uk/nature-reserves/loughborough-big-meadow/). Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 13 November 2017. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Loughborough Meadows citation"](http://www.sssi.naturalengland.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1002254.pdf) (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 13 November 2017. Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Loughborough Meadows](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:_Loughborough_Meadows). [52°47′28″N 1°12′22″W / 52.791°N 1.206°W / 52.791; -1.206](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Loughborough_Meadows¶ms=52.791_N_1.206_W_type:landmark_region:GB-BNE) 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 --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Loughborough Meadows](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loughborough_Meadows) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loughborough_Meadows?action=history)). 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