Ridlins Mire

Ridlins Mire is a 1.6-hectare (4.0-acre) nature reserve managed by the Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England.^[1]

This wetland site is a type of peat bog. It is the result of a spring, which has resulted in the growth of peat over many years into a domed structure called a rheotrophic hangmire. This is a rare habitat and unique in Hertfordshire.^[2] The dominant plants are tussock sedge and marsh marigold. There are birds such as long-tailed tits and great tits, and butterflies including large whites and small tortoiseshells.^[1]

The site is unfenced on its border with Goddard End, but access is difficult as there is no formal entrance or footpaths.

References

^ ^a ^b "Ridlins Mire". Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
^ "Wetlands Habitat Action Plan" (PDF).

51°53′04″N 0°09′56″W / 51.884501°N 0.165626°W / 51.884501; -0.165626

[HM-1] "Ridlins Mire". Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 27 September 2015.

[Stev-2] "Wetlands Habitat Action Plan" (PDF).

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v t e Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust
Dacorum	Aldbury Nowers Alpine Meadow Long Deans Tring Reservoirs
East Hertfordshire	Amwell Quarry Balls Wood Danemead Hertford Heath Hunsdon and Eastwick Meads King's Meads Patmore Heath Rye Meads Tewin Orchard and Hopkyns Wood Tewinbury Thorley Wash Waterford Heath Willowmead
Hertsmere	Hilfield Park Reservoir
North Hertfordshire	Ashwell Quarry and Quarry Springs Blagrove Common Fox Covert Hawkins Wood Hexton Chalk Pit Oughtonhead Purwell Ninesprings
Stevenage	Ridlins Mire
Three Rivers	Frogmore Meadows Longspring Wood Stocker's Lake
Watford	Cassiobury Park
Welwyn Hatfield	Fir and Pond Woods Gobions Wood Lemsford Springs Stanborough Reedmarsh Stocking Springs Wood
Hillingdon	Broadwater Lake Old Park Wood Uxbridge Alderglade
Former reserves	Barkway Chalk Pit Darland's Lake Nature Reserve Hill End Pit Marshalls Heath Pryor's Wood Rowley Green Common Sawbridgeworth Marsh Telegraph Hill