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Blackslade Mire SSSI (SX7375)
© Peter Wakely/English Nature
Situated 2km east of Widecombe in the Moor this site covers almost 68 hectares of mixed valley mire containing a number of species rich communities. It contains a complete transition of habitats from dry unimproved grassland through wet heath into mire itself. The mire consists of various Sphagnum mosses and herb species including bog ashodel, round leaved sundew, bog pimpernel, pale butterwort, bog pondweed, bogbean, marsh pennywort and marsh lousewort and marsh St John's-wort. If you visit in high summer you might be lucky enough to see a display of common cottongrass and hare's tail cottongrass amonst the gorse and heather in the surrounding wet heaths. This site still holds breeding Curlew and Snipe.
Page updated 27 August 2009
