A1-The Great North Road

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Nature Reserves

Lemsford Springs

                between Hatfield and Welwyn

Paxton Pits

                at Little Paxton, between St. Neots and Buckden in Huntingdonshire.

Therfield Heath

                on western edge of Royston, Hertfordshire.

Monks Wood

                east of A1 between Alconbury and Sawtry

Aversley Woods, Archer's Wood and Ashton Wold

                on the Bullock road near Sawtry.

Barnack Hills and Holes

                East of the A1 between Wansford and Stamford, a Roman to Medieval quarry with rich limestone flora.

Great Casterton Road Banks

                just north of Stamford, Lincolnshire.

South Witham Verges

                two miles north of Stretton, on the South Witham-Castle Bytham roadside.

Woolsthorpe Line, Colsterworth

                Disused railway line that crosses the A1 half a mile north of Colsterworth roundabout.

Ancaster Valley

               near crossroads in Ancaster, rich limestone grassland flora in steep valley.

Kings Wood

              Half a mile north of Bawtry, woodland famed for its bluebells and chestnuts.

Brockadale

                in the Went valley, east of Wentbridge, Yorkshire.

Thorne and Hatfield moors

                Lowland peat wetlands in Humberhead Levels, north-east of Doncaster.

Skipwith Common

                Lowland heath, woods and wetlands.

Lower Derwent Valley National Nature Reserve

                flood meadows, pasture and woodland, around the Derwent south of Kexby Bridge on A1079.

Pity Me Carrs

                Co. Durham.

Thrunton Woods

                Northumberland

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