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----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Jerry Clough - OSM <[email protected]> To: Glenn Proctor <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, 20 July, 2010 12:41:59 Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging roadside verge SSSIs Verge side nature reserves are not uncommon: http://www.lifeontheverge.org.uk/naturalarea.php In most cases they protect flowers, usually orchids, which have been eliminated from adjoining fields by use of fertiliser or artificial drainage. I know of one in Nottinghamshire where the council received some 200+ complaints when it was mown before the Bee Orchids had set seed. Jerry ________________________________ From: Glenn Proctor <[email protected]> To: Ed Loach <[email protected]> Cc: OSM Talk-GB <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, 20 July, 2010 9:10:54 Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging roadside verge SSSIs It's definitely the verge - there are orchids (according to my wife) growing there. The other side ofnthe hedge is just an arable field. The SSSI sign specifically refers to the verge as well. Glenn. On Tuesday, July 20, 2010, Ed Loach <[email protected]> wrote: > Dave F wrote: > >> Are you sure it's referring just to the verge & not stretching >> further >> away from the road (into fields/woods ?) > > Near here we have "verges" between pavement and adjacent landuse > (often fields) which are overgrown with signs at either end (with > arrows) and sometimes in the middle denoting them as nature reserves > (the sceptic in me read this as "cost saving no mowing area"), so > I'd think it quite possible that there is a verge that is denoted as > SSSI if something of interest has been noted growing there. > > Ed > > _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
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