Ventongimps Moor

Ventongimps Moor
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Location within Cornwall
Area of Search	Cornwall
Grid reference	SW781510
Coordinates	50°19′05″N 5°07′05″W / 50.3181°N 5.1181°W / 50.3181; -5.1181Coordinates: 50°19′05″N 5°07′05″W / 50.3181°N 5.1181°W / 50.3181; -5.1181
Interest	Biological
Area	8.2 hectares (0.082 km²; 0.032 sq mi)
Notification	1951 (1951)
Natural England website

Ventongimps Moor is a moorland nature reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), noted for its biological characteristics, in mid Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The site, important for the occurrence of the plant Dorset heath, was the first reserve to be purchased by the Cornwall Wildlife Trust.

History

The moor was mentioned in 1311, being called "Funtenvaes", meaning well or spring.^[1]

Ventongimps Moor was the first nature reserve to be bought by the newly founded Cornwall Wildlife Trust in 1966. The site was spotted by a Trust volunteer, Dr Frank Smith, and purchased because it was under threat from intensive agriculture activities.^[2]^[3]

A Second World War bomber was discovered on the site in 1977 and subsequently removed for restoration, leaving behind a new pond on the moor.^[1]

Geography

The 8.2-hectare (20-acre) SSSI, notified in 1951, is located within Perranzabuloe civil parish, near the hamlet of Ventongimps, 5 miles (8.0 km) north-west of the city of Truro.^[4]^[5]

The nature reserve is currently owned and managed by the Cornwall Wildlife Trust.^[1]

Wildlife and ecology

The moor's predominant habitat is wet dwarf shrub heath, although others include bogland, marshland, mixed deciduous woodland and open water. The Cornwall Wildlife Trust utilises periodic burning and partial removal of scrub to manage the site.^[6]

Of particular interest to the site are two Red Data Book plants, Dorset Heath (Erica ciliaris) and Eyebright (Euphrasia vigursii). Other flora found on the site include Cornish Moneywort (Sibthorpia europaea), the hybrid heath 'Dawn' (Erica x watsonii),^[7] Hay-scented Buckler Fern (Dryopteris aemula), Wavy-leaved St John's Wort (Hypericum undulatum), Yellow Bartsia (Parentucellia viscosa) and Yellow Centaury (Cicendia filiformis).^[6]

The nationally rare Scarce Blue-tailed Damselfly (Ischnura pumilio) is one of the 13 species of dragonfly and damselfly that the ponds on the moor supports. The site also supports 99 recorded species of Lepidoptera.^[1]^[6]

References

1 2 3 4 "Ventongimps Moor Nature Reserve". Cornwall Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
↑ "Trust members celebrate five decades of protecting wildlife and habitats". this is Cornwall. 23 January 2012. Retrieved 30 January 2012.
↑ "A 'golden' year for Cornwall Wildlife Trust". Cornwall Wildlife Trust. 20 January 2012. Retrieved 30 January 2012.
↑ "Ventongimps Moor map". Natural England. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
↑ Ordnance Survey: Explorer Map 104 Redruth & St Agnes ISBN 978-0-319-23705-2
1 2 3 "Ventongimps Moor" (PDF). Natural England. 1984. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
↑ "Erica × watsonii 'Dawn'". The Plant Finder's Encyclopedia. Plant Press. Retrieved 29 January 2012.

External links

BBC Doomsday Project - Ventongimps

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Cornwall	Aire Point to Carrick Du Amble Marshes Baulk Head to Mullion Bedruthan Steps and Park Head Boconnoc Park and Woods Bodmin Moor, North Borlasevath and Retallack Moor Boscastle to Widemouth Brendonmoor Breney Common Bude Coast Cabilla Manor Wood Caerthillian to Kennack Carnkief Pond Carrick Heaths Carricknath Point to Porthbean Beach Carrine Common & Penwethers Chyenhal Moor Cligga Head Coombe Mill Coverack to Porthoustock Crow's Nest Crowhill Valley Dozmary Pool Draynes Wood East Lizard Heathlands Eglarooze Cliff Gerrans Bay to Camels Cove Godrevy Head to St Agnes Goonhilly Downs Goss and Tregoss Moors Greenamoor Greenscoombe Wood, Luckett Grimscott Gwithian to Mexico Towans Hayle Estuary & Carrack Gladden Kelsey Head Kennack to Coverack Kernick and Ottery Meadows Loe Pool Loggans Moor Lower Bostraze and Leswidden Lower Fal & Helford Intertidal Lymsworthy Meadows Lynher Estuary Malpas Estuary Marazion Marsh Meddon Moor Meneage Coastal Section Merthen Wood Minster Church Mullion Cliff to Predannack Cliff Nance Wood Newlyn Downs Ottery Valley Park Wood Penhale Dunes Pentire Peninsula Phoenix United Mine Plymouth Sound Shores And Cliffs Polruan to Polperro Polyne Quarry Porthgwarra to Pordenack Point Rame Head & Whitsand Bay Red Moor Redlake Meadows & Hoggs Moor Retire Common River Camel Valley and Tributaries Rock Dunes Rosemullion Rosenannon Bog and Downs St Austell Clay Pits St John's Lake St Nectan's Glen Steeple Point to Marsland Mouth Swanpool Sylvia's Meadow Talland Barton Tamar–Tavy Estuary Tintagel Cliffs Treen Cliff Tregonetha & Belowda Downs Tregonning Hill Trehane Barton Trelow Downs Trevose Head and Constantine Bay Upper Fal Estuary and Woods Upper Fowey Valley Ventongimps Moor West Cornwall Bryophytes West Lizard

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