17. Summary chart of meadow features
Feature |
Drowning |
Archaeology |
Habitat |
Land use |
Comments |
Great Mead |
3 |
3 |
2 |
D |
Needs water levels, small structures, classic meadow |
Great Mead (South) |
2 |
3 |
2 |
D |
Needs much restoration |
Ivy or Coopers Mead (north) |
1 |
3 |
3 |
X |
Leave as dry meadow, needs much restoration |
Ivy or Coopers Mead (south) |
3 |
3 |
2 |
D |
Inlet structures, drainage issues by garden |
Part of Cooper’s Mead (open) |
3 |
3 |
2 |
D |
May be drainage issues through copse |
Part of Coopers (Rotary Copse) |
1 |
1 |
2 |
Copse |
Rotary Copse. Inappropriate land use |
Nails to Parker’s Mead |
3 |
3 |
2 |
D |
Classic bedwork |
Sammel’s Acre |
3 |
3 |
2 |
D |
Potential demonstration site by Town Path |
Longbridge to Parsonage Mead |
F |
1 |
3 |
F/H |
Floodmeadow without floating infrastructure |
Seven Acres (upper area) |
3 |
3 |
3 |
D |
*Intricate area not in SSSI |
Seven Acres (lower) |
3 |
3 |
3 |
D |
Classic bedwork, haycart bridges, easy watering |
Seven Acres (lowest by Avon) |
F |
3 |
3 |
D/F |
*SSSI Drains Desmoulins, maybe orchids, vegetation management important |
Nine Acres |
F |
1 |
3 |
F |
SSSI area, no infrastructure |
St Nicholas’ Mead |
2 |
2 |
3 |
D/F |
SSSI non-Trust, liaison |
Four Acres |
2 |
3 |
3 |
D/F |
SSSI non-Trust. Liaison needed, drainage & restoration |
Five Acres |
2 |
3 |
2 |
D |
Possible site for detailed excavation / restoration |
Martin’s Mead and Snows Acre |
3 |
3 |
2 |
D |
Actually quite an intricate area, not all drownable? |
Martin’s Mead south / lower |
3 |
3 |
3 |
D/F |
Drains like Seven Acres (lower), vegetation management important |
Neave’s Mead (RoseCottage) |
2 |
3 |
3 |
Garden |
Desirable demonstration area needs restoration and tree rationalisation |
