Gomm Valley

Gomm Valley
Site of Special Scientific Interest
View of Little Gomm's Wood from Gomm Valley
Area of Search	Buckinghamshire
Grid reference	SU897922
Interest	Biological
Area	4.1 hectares
Location map	Magic Map

Gomm Valley is a 4.1 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Micklefield, a district of High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire. It is managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust and is part of the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The local planning authority is Wycombe District Council.^[1]^[2]^[3]

The site is chalk grassland which is reverting to scrub. It has a rich variety of herbs and of invertebrates, and is notable for reptiles and over-wintering birds, particularly thrushes. Over 30 species of butterflies and 180 of moths have been recorded.^[1]^[4]

There is access by a footpath from Gomm Road.^[4]

References

1 2 "Gomm Valley citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
↑ "Map of Gomm Valley". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
↑ "Gomm Valley". Chilterns Conservation Board. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
1 2 "Gomm Valley". Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 9 January 2015.

Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Buckinghamshire

Biological	Ashridge Commons and Woods Aston Clinton Ragpits Aston Rowant Aston Rowant Woods Bacombe and Coombe Hills Black Park Bradenham Woods, Park Wood and The Coppice Burnham Beeches Buttlers Hangings Dancersend Dancersend Waterworks Ellesborough and Kimble Warrens Fayland Chalk Bank Finemere Wood Foxcote Reservoir and Wood Frieth Meadows Frogmore Meadows Gomm Valley Grangelands and Pulpit Hill Grendon and Doddershall Woods Ham Home-cum-Hamgreen Woods Hodgemoor Wood Hollowhill and Pullingshill Woods Homefield Wood Howe Park Wood Ivinghoe Hills Kingcup Meadows and Oldhouse Wood Kings and Bakers Woods and Heaths Littleworth Common Lodge Hill Long Herdon Meadow Mid Colne Valley Millfield Wood Moorend Common Naphill Common Old Rectory Meadows Oxley Mead Pilch Fields Pitstone Hill Poker's Pond Meadow Rodbed Wood Rushbeds Wood and Railway Cutting Shabbington Woods Complex Sheephouse Wood Stoke Common Swain's Wood Temple Island Meadows Tingewick Meadows Tring Reservoirs Turville Hill Weston Turville Reservoir Widdenton Park Wood Windsor Hill Wormsley Chalk Banks Yardley Chase

Geological	Bierton Clay Pit Bolter End Sand Pit Bugle Quarry Fern House Gravel Pit Froghall Brickworks Muswell Hill Pitstone Quarry South Lodge Pit Stone Warren Farm, Stewkley

Coordinates: 51°37′17″N 0°42′21″W / 51.6215°N 0.7057°W / 51.6215; -0.7057

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Gomm Valley

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